Jesus greatest liberation warrior: Pinarayi

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Moving away from the focus of a national seminar on ‘Lokpal and democracy’, organised as part of the CPM state conference here, CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday said that his party was seeing Jesus Chirst as ‘’history’s greatest liberation warrior.’’ Referring to the controversy triggered by the inclusion of Jesus Christ in a history expo titled ‘Marx is right’ as part of the party conference here, he said that there was no reason for others to express intolerance over the inclusion of Jesus in the expo and some vested interests were trying to misinterpret the facts.“We hail Jesus for his being the greatest warrior of liberation. He whipped away the bogus priests, money lenders and thieves from worship places which they had converted into their den,’’ he said.  “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter  the kingdom of God,’’ quoting from the Bible (Mark-10:25), Pinarayi said that Jesus had always stood for the liberation of the oppressed.We don’t want anybody’s approval for hailing Jesus. It was his struggle for the poor and the hapless among Jews made him enemy of the religious leadership as well as that of the King, the CPM leader said.He also recollected a controversy involving the late Marxist leader  K Damodaran and Fr Vadakkan. Pinarayi said Christian values always stood for a system which was against exploitation. He said Communists always had a explored the possibilities of working in tandem with spiritual sects. He claimed that Communists and Christians can work together in  liberating people from exploitation. The Latin American experience had proved it beyond doubt, he said.Earlier, inaugurating the seminar, he said that it had to be examined why the Prime Minister had opted to keep mum when Dayanidi Maran and A Raja were busy forcing out of the way matters to be implemented using their clout in the Government. “If the Prime Minister remained a mute witness, he should have been forced to do so at the behest of the Congress leadership,” he said.