Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Apr 13: Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) state president Muneer Katipalla has written an open letter to Dakshina Kannada district youth Congress president Mithun Rai seeking to know why he has taken a stand that is harder than the one owned by intolerant BJP leaders relating to allowing Kerala patients to get treated in hospitals here. This letter has become viral on social sites.

"Mithun is not right in outright opposing the treatment of non-coronavirus patients from Kasargod district in private hospitals in the city. He is wrong in doing so, as India is a democratic country where no states can close their borders to stop people from moving around. But, in the backdrop of coronavirus, not only state, even district borders have been closed. Even then, services like food and health cannot be banned and doing so is against the principles of union system of government," Katipalla stated in his letter.

"The BJP leaders, in blocking the border with Kasargod, were backed by the determination to hold communist parties, who are opposed to their principles, in a fix and project bad image of Kerala government in front of the general public. Because of this, some people who were in a precarious condition, lost their lives as they could not get medical facilities. It need not come as a surprise in the case of a party like BJP. But you being a youth leader of Congress party that is led by secular policies, have acquired an aggressive stand on the closing of the border with Kerala, which is condemnable. You have spoken more aggressively than the hardcore BJP leaders and viewed the people of Kasargod with suspicion. How far you are right in doing so?" Katipalla has questioned Rai.