As predicted after boycotting the peace initiative of Organiser in Calicut, the CPM workers taking recourse to violence, set on fire the RSS and BJP offices
The CPM has once again demonstrated that it is for violence whatever its leadership may talk for public consumption. This time, on July 11 in Payyannur, Kannur District, the CPM activists attacked the zilla karyalay of RSS and the offices of BJP in the evening. The CPM workers hurled petrol bombs at the offices and set on fire the RSS zilla karyalay and the BJP office. The BJP office was torched resulting in the total damage and loss of the appliances in it. The culprits attacked the houses of the RSS and BJP workers in the area. The houses of RSS zilla karyavah Rajesh, BJP Payyannur mandal general secretary Balakrishnan, BJYM Kannur district president Arunkumar and several other RSS-BJP workers were destroyed in the attack.
It is reported that CPM observes July 11, as the death anniversary of Dhanaraj, a CPM criminal. He had led several attacks on the RSS and BJP workers. Two RSS workers were murdered post his death. The RSS and BJP workers allege that the police failed to take precautionary measures despite the Intelligence warning of repetition of attacks and hooliganism of what the CPM criminals did last year on the same day.
The targeted attacks on the RSS followed the peace talk ‘In Search of Peace’ initiated by Organiser which was boycotted by the CPM. The CPM’s rejection of the peace talk had clearly sent a signal to the public that they were not willing to put down their arms. With the latest attacks, the speculations of journalists and political observers have turned out to be true.
Speaking to Organiser, RSS Prajna Pravah national convener Shri J Nandakumar said, “Several houses of the RSS, BJP and BJYM workers have been attacked. The attacks that occured after the peace initiative by Organiser, which was boycotted by the CPM, have exposed the real violent face of the CPM. The party is still adamant on its stand of political violence which is just an extension of its decision to boycott the peace meeting held at Calicut.” Shri Nandakumar also served as the Zilla Pracharak in Payyannur, where the attack took place.
The attack was on the pretext of an alleged bomb attack on a rally organised by the CPM on the death anniversary of Dhanraj. But the local newspapers reported that the CPM cadres possessed the bombs. Last year, a series of attacks were unleashed by the CPM on the same line in Payyannur. On July 11,
2016, the CPM cadres hacked C Ramachandran, a BMS worker, death. A group of CPM workers stormed his house after creating a terror atmosphere by hurling crude bombs. He was brutally murdered in front of his wife and two children.
Protesting against the CPM hooliganism, the BJP called for a hartal in Payyannur constituency on July 12.
—T Satisan, Kochi
