Kerala

Communist party opposes its state secretary's stand in its own mouth piece

Written by : TNM

The News Minute | December 11, 2014 | 9.15 am ISTRejecting the re-considered stand taken by the CPI(M) state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan against Kiss of Love, the party’s mouth piece Deshabhimani came out in support of the event the very same day.Commemorating the Human Rights Day, on Wednesday, a senior functionary, associate editor of the paper and one considered to be close to Pinarayi had written a piece favouring the Kiss of Love event, Manorama Online reported. Kissing with affection and love will evoke humanity, the piece said.Pinarayi had taken a stand that though he was against moral policing the kind of protest that Kiss of Love adopted was wrong. Read - When it comes to 'Kiss of Love', CPI M leader Pinarayi Vijayan behaves like a pendulumThough the party paper had Pinarayi’s comments on the first page, inside, on the opinion page carried this article against the state secretary’s stand. Any protests which are done in protest of human right infringement should be welcomed. When a boy and girl sit together the right wingers find it immoral, the piece published on Wednesday said. It is only when we kiss with love those who make deliberate attempts to infringe human rights that humans become humans, the note ended.

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