Kerala: Congress fields Bindu Krishna who organised anti-Hindu ‘beef festival’, provokes Hindu sentiments

The Congress party has fielded a candidate in the 2021 assembly election who organized notorious anti-Hindu “Beef Festivals” throughout Kerala in 2017.

As the joint UDF candidate, the Congress party has fielded one of its senators, Bindhu Krishna, from the Kollam constituency.

Bindhu Krishna, who was instrumental in organizing anti-Hindu beef festivals in Kerala to offend Hindus, was named as the party’s candidate from Kollam in the 2021 Kerala elections in a list of 86 candidates released by the Congress party ahead of the Kerala Assembly elections.

Bindhu Krishna, Congress leader and District unit head of the Congress party in Kollam, was the face of beef festivals organized throughout Kerala to protest the Centre’s ban on the sale and slaughter of cattle. Staff from the Congress party, headed by Bindhu Krishna, cooked beef in front of the DCC headquarters.

Indulging in the heinous act, Congress leader Bindhu Krishna said that the Modi government had no right to mess with people’s livelihoods. “It is nothing more than an infringement on the human rights of this country’s citizens,” she had said.

Not just that, but the Congress leader from Kollam had organized a similar protest against the center in 2017 and repeated the inflammatory act in 2018. Bindu Krishna had boldly stated that the “beef delicacy will be packaged and sent to the head post office for delivery to Modi Ji.”

It is unsurprising that the Congress party has publicly fielded politicians who have often expressed anti-Hindu sentiments in the past. It is worth noting that the Congress party has formed a coalition with the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) for the 2021 Kerala assembly elections. The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), which claims to have been established after Indian independence in 1948, is currently a branch of Pakistan’s All India Muslim League, founded by Islamist Mohammad Ali Jinnah (AIML).

The Indian Union Muslim League has a history of inciting religious strife in the state of Kerala. According to the report of the Justice Thomas P Joseph Commission, which was established to investigate the Marad massacre in Kerala in 2003, the group was complicit in both the preparation and execution of the atrocity. According to the study, the massacre was “a simple communal plot involving Muslim extremist and terrorist organizations.”

Furthermore, in 2017, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a new First Information Report (FIR) in connection with the investigation, accusing Indian Union Muslim League leaders P.P. Moideen Koya and Moyeen Haji with funding, conspiring, and carrying out the disturbances.

Rahul Gandhi’s win in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency is largely due to the Congress party’s alliance with the IUML, which consolidated Muslim votes in favor of the Gandhi-scion.