Leaders of prominent Christian and Muslim social organisations in Kerala joined hands with their mostly Hindu backward class and Dalit counterparts on Tuesday to launch a political awareness campaign in March to protect secular values under the aegis of the government-supported Renaissance Protection Samathi (RPS). They pledged to protect the secular unity Kerala had witnessed during the catastrophic floods in August last. H. Periera of the Latin rite of the Catholic Church, Kadakkal Abdul Azeez Maulavi, president of the Kerala Muslim Jamaat Federation, and P.K. The leaders reiterated that their coming together at the behest of the government was not an election-oriented move but to reaffirm constitutional values and unite the people. The campaign would remind the new generation of the sacrificial struggles of their ancestors to throw off the yoke of an enslaving feudal social order based on the concept of varna and caste supremacy and the need to protect the liberal values the forebears fought for.

Source: The Hindu February 05, 2019 14:17 UTC