Kerala CM knocks Centre’s stamp and 100 coin for RSS centenary, calls it ‘serious insult to Constitution’

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan|Image Credit: THULASI KAKKAT

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has actually criticised the BJP-led Central federal government’s choice to release postage stamp and a 100 coin commemorating the centenary of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), calling it a “serious insult to our Constitution.”

In a post on X, Mr. Vijayan knocked the Centre’s effort to “legitimise an organisation that avoided the flexibility battle, promoting a dissentious ideology that lined up with the colonial technique (of divide and guideline)”.

Commemorating the RSS centenary with a postage stamp and a 100 rupee coin is a serious insult to our Constitution. It legitimises an organisation that avoided the liberty battle, promoting a dissentious ideology that lined up with the colonial method. This nationwide honour is …

— Pinarayi Vijayan (@pinarayivijayan) October 1, 2025

He stated the “nationwide honour is a direct attack on the memory of our real flexibility fighters and the nonreligious, unified India they imagined”.

On Gandhi Jayanti Day on Thursday (October 2, 2025), Mr. Vijayan likewise sounded a caution versus the “dangers postured by combative conservative Hindu nationalism” to India’s nonreligious polity.

Kerala CM knocks Centre’s stamp and 100 coin for RSS centenary

Kerala CM knocks Centre’s stamp and 100 coin for RSS centenary|Video Credit: The Hindu

In a Facebook post, Mr. Vijayan stated that “Hindu majoritarian extremists had actually shot Mahatma Gandhi dead for safeguarding secularism and democracy.”

“The fanatical assassins saw Gandhian worths as a powerful ideological and political obstacle to enforcing their revanchist view of an uniform Hindu country”, he stated.

Mr. Vijayan stated Gandhi was “martyred for his concept of India as a nonreligious, inclusive and pluralistic country.”

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“It is on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti that the Central federal government provided a stamp and a coin celebrating the 100th year of development of the RSS, which the authorities had actually proscribed after the Gandhi assassination”, he stated.

Mr. Vijayan stated the RSS” feared even the memory “of Mahatma Gandhi.

“The Central federal government is looking for to reword history by trying to supplant Gandhi with Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, an RSS ideologue who dealt with trial in the Gandhi assassination case, as the real leader of the Indian Independence motion”, he mentioned.

Previously, speaking on the 3rd death anniversary of the late Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan in Kannur on Thursday, Mr. Vijayan had in strong terms flagged the “existential danger” positioned by the RSS to “minorities and marginalised areas of society.”

“The RSS aimed for a Hindu theocracy which abided by an overbearing caste system that viewed minorities, consisting of linguistic minorities, Dalits, tribals and backwards classes as subaltern residents of low social status. The RSS has actually obtained a page from the German fascist leader (Adolf) Hitler’s playbook and looked for the annihilation of minorities, which it deemed treasonous 5th writers for creating a Hindu totalitarian state”, he stated.

Mr. Vijayan stated the ideological line in between the Congress and the RSS was progressively blurred. “A selection of Congress leaders from the early days of the organisation had an affinity for RSS ideology. The extensive ideological obscurity in the Congress in safeguarding secularism eventually led the way for the increase of the Bharatiya Janata Party in erstwhile Congress-ruled States in the nation”, he stated.