Now, I wonder what is a soft stand. The supreme court has been more radical than the political activists in Kerala. They have taken a stand that women have a right to enter Sabarimala temple. The Chief Minister has also taken a strong stand. But the ground is not clear. Whether it be the organisations and cadre of the left, secularists or women's movement. The Chief Minister is depending on the police and not political movements to execute the Supreme Court's order. Once in a while, we hjear words like social reform movement in Kerala. But when the population itself is hijacked by the reformists and Hindutva agenda, what are you going to do? It is funny. Sreedharan Pillai of BJP expressed an honest opinion that some of us have been yelling for years. He said very boldly that: : `We set the political agenda in Kerala and we know that everybody will follow'. I am sure he is right.
On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 12:06 PM yemuna sunny <yemu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Something needs to be done especially as situations are now starkly > polarised, as between an atheist party (on the helm of affairs of the > state) and a Hindutva aggressive RSS/ BJP that will not let women go to > Sabarimala. > > Questions heard here from some ordinary people: > > # Why do women want to go? > # Why should Pinarayi take such a strong stand to take women to Sabarimala? > # Why can't he take a soft stand and let the crisis pass? > > People other than the RSS coterie and the state and the CPM should come to > the streets, reveal their identity and declare solidarity for equality of > women as per our constitution. > > Yemuna > > On 07-Nov-2018 8:22 am, "KP Sasi" <kpsas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If we believe that our half the population in Kerala are not secondary > citizens, we have to prove it on streets. If we don't show our strength at > least now, we must accept our defeat. No point in blaming anybody else. > > On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 9:24 AM KP Sasi <kpsas...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Kerala is a land of many people's movements as per its history. Like >> waves washing its shores, these movements cleaned up the minds of the >> Keralites. Its history is filled with initiatives on Dalit struggles, >> struggles on women's rights and struggles for communal harmony. But I >> wonder, where we are proceeding to at this moment. The only women's >> movement I can find today is that of the Sanghis supported by NSS and >> Congress shouting loud that `we women do not want our rights'. With all >> his limitations, I support Pinarayi Vijayan's stand that women who wish to >> enter Sabarimala Temple will be given protection. But who is there to >> protect? The police? Where is the women's movement in Kerala? Where is the >> secular movement in Kerala? Your words are heard in social media and TV >> channels. But the ground is theirs. The numbers on the ground also count in >> a democracy. Politics of convenience has doomed all of us. This battle will >> determine the last straw of parliamentary communism in Indian history. >> Whether we like it or not. >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
