KERALA-Political Backdrop to Trivandrum Riots

KERALA Political Backdrop to Trivandrum Riots O J FOR over fifty years, Muslims in Alleppey, have been taking out peaceful processions on Prophet Mohammed's birthday. Not once had the need arisen for the police to intervene. As processions of one kind or another pass through the narrow thoroughfares of Kerala's towns and cities almost every day, the average Keralite has learnt to live with the little inconveniences caused by the choking of traffic for upto a good hundred minutes at times. No one complains, because everyone knows that the success of the endeavour of the processionists is measured with reference to the length of time for which traffic is snarled.