Author:
Publication: BJP Today
Date: August 16-31,
2000
On the page alongside
dear reader, you will find a colour photograph showing a newly married
couple flanked by the mother of the bride and senior BJP leaders of Kerala.
On close scrutiny, you will find that the wedding took place in a temple
belonging to the SNDP sect, because the picture of Shri Narayan Guru also
appears in the photograph.
However, you will find
that there is not even a flicker of a smile on the faces of any one featuring
in the picture. The bride, her husband, the mother of the girl, and the
BJP leaders, all appear to have even forgotten to smile at such a joyous
occasion. In fact, when I attended this wedding on July 2 in Panoor town
of Kannur district, I did not find a single adult showing any sign of pleasure,
let alone jubilation. This was because on everyone's mind, the incident
of the brutal murder of Jayakrishna Master, elder brother of the bride
Usha, weighed heavily during the wedding ceremony, which in any case are
very simple and short in Kerala.
K. N. Jayakrishna Master,
a teacher at Mokeri near Panoor was the vice president of the Bharatiya
Janata Yova Morcha Kerala, who like any other disillusioned communist,
had come over to the BJP/RSS. He was killed in cold blood by Marxist goondas
when he was teaching in a school on December 1, 1999.
The murder was so ghastly
that it shook the conscience of all civilised people. The BJP had sent
from the centre a delegation led by Maj. General B. C. Khandoori, Chief
Whip of the BJP in the Lok Sabha and had reported in detail the incident
to the party leaders.
Jayakrishna Master belonged
to a middle class family and the local RSS and BJP leaders arranged the
marriage of one of her sisters, Usha, who is a MA.B.Ed, to Shri N. Prakashan,
a school teacher at Nadukkandiyil. He too belongs to Panoor and is a member
of the Parivar. Panoor is well known for R.S.S. CPI-M clashes in which
scores of people have been killed, mostly belonging to the Parivar, because
of the numerical superiority of the Marxists and the total politicisation
of the Police force just like in West Bengal.
You will find in the
picture Shri C.K. Padmanabhan, President of the Kerala BJP, Shri P.P. Mukundan,
organising
General Secretary, Shri
Chandrashekhar, the Sanghachalak of the area, Usha's widowed mother and
Shri Basavraj Patil, all-India secretary of the party in charge of Kerala
affairs (now chief of Karnataka BJP).
Another blood curdling
story of Marxist barbarity
In the other picture,
you will find a happy couple with their little daughter. In contrast to
the earlier picture, You will find all three featuring in this photograph,
similing happily. However, those hearty smiles are actually an attempt
to forget the trauma the young man in the picture had suffered, his only
fault being that he too was disillusioned with the Communists and had the
temerity to leave the Students Federation of India and join, of all organisation,
the "communal" R.S.S. rising to the post of "Saha Zila Karyavah".
"Till my pre-degree course"
he told me "I was attached with the SFI. My father was an active communist,
but became inactive after 1993. During my college days, I came in contact
with Gokuldas of the ABVP, who became my close friend. At this point of
time, he gave me a book written by Shri Parameshwaran, "Communism and Hindutva",
which deeply influenced me. I once attended a bouddhik at a Raksha Bandhan
ceremony organised by the RSS in my village.
"The slight change in
me developed into my attachment to the R.S.S. and I became a swayamsewak.
My family warned me about the consequences of this, but I stuck to the
R.S.S. Many other boys of the village too joined the R.S.S. shakhas. I
later became Bouddhik Pramukh of Thrissur and the Saha Zila Karyavah".
This is half the story
C. Sadananda Master, a primary school assistant of Peramangalam S.D.V.
High School in Thrissur district, told me when I visited him on July I
sitting in the car I was using during my journey to the northern districts
of Kerala. The other half of the story made me squirm in the seat and it
took all the efforts of a hard-boiled reporter not to betray any emotion,
while listening to him.
"On Sept 8, 1993, the
CPI-M had called a Bandh in Kerala during which they sought to dismantle
a bus shelter in-village Perincheri built by the RSS. I and some other
swaymsewaks resited. The reprisal came three months later. On Jan.25, 1994,
while I was in village Uruvachal, to visit my uncle in connection with
my sister's marriage, at least twenty CPI-M workers accosted me, and after
pulling me down on the ground, chopped off both my legs. I became unconscious
in raging pain. I lay on the road while the CPI-M people threw bombs on
the road and escaped. Police came twenty minutes later. I was taken to
the Kozhikode Medical college Hospital and later to Bangalore where a RSS
sponsored organisation Sewa-in-action arranged for my artificial legs".
The only thing wrong
in this picture, unknown to the viewers, is that Sadanandan does not have
normal legs to stand upon. His trousers are hiding the artificial legs.
On recovery, he got a job in this school.
It was at this point,
that Vanitha Rani, sister of a swayamsewak, offered to marry him knowing
full well his physical handicap. They were married on May 25, 1995 and
have a charming daughter. He can now walk upto half a kilometer without
assistance. Sadanandan is ever smiling and continues to be active in the
RSS with Vanitha Rani providing all inspiration to her otherwise handicapped
husband.
