NEW DELHI, Dec. 5 -- Why the 135-day-old fisher people's protest movement for their coastal-life-survival at Vizhinjam in Kerala has suddenly been termed a foreign-funded anti-national activity by the Communist-led government in the State? Why the peaceful protestors have been brutally assaulted by a ruthless police force? Why a communal conglomerate headed by the BJP engaged their mob in provoking and assaulting the peaceful protestors?

The answers are simple. First, it is Adani, the global corporate giant, nurtured by the Modi government, on the opposite of the oppressed. Second, it is the BJP and its communal allies, who crave for fishing in the murky waters of communal polarization in Kerala, playing the dirty politics. And third, i...