THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that renaissance leaders are being used as tools for communal propaganda in the society and the mask of communalization should be torn off. He was inaugurating the Kerala Navodhana Samithi state leadership convention at the KSTA hall.

Renaissance leaders should not be allowed to be communalized. A concerted effort is being made at the national level to destroy and slander Kerala's socio-cultural excellence. As soon as the incident in Kalamassery took place, some evil forces in the state tried to communalise it and create communalism, but the state unitedly resisted and defeated it.

Those who innocently ask 'Hasn't the time of Renaissance passed already?' have a special agenda. Secularism is what makes brotherhood possible. There is a difference between a caste-neutral society and a religion-neutral society. A casteless society is based on the principle of not asking and not telling one's caste. A religion-neutral (secular) society is not a society without religion. There is freedom of religion and belief. People are living in brotherhood without asking about one's religion and without telling one's religion while maintaining all that. A committee has been appointed to look into the demands which require administrative action raised by the Renaissance Conservation Committee.

The Chief Minister also stated that the committee chaired by the Additional Chief Secretary of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Department will examine the demands like caste census and Bihar Model Socio-Economic Census and submit recommendations to the government in a timely manner.

KP Natarajan, chairman of the SNDP Yogam Cherthala regional committee, said that the critics should realize that the Navodhana Samithi was not formed for women's entry into Sabarimala. Former Minister Dr. A Neelalohithadasan Nadar presided. K Shanthakumari MLA, Navodhana Samithi state general secretary P Ramabhadran, office bearers former MP K Somaprasad, KP Mohammed, Chowara Sunil and others spoke.