TIMES New Delhi: Warning the BJP and its ideological fountainhead RSS to either rein in political violence in Left-ruled Kerala or face the consequences, CPM said on Monday it is “capable of responding suitably” to provocations from saffron outfits.
Leading a march to the BJP’s headquarters in New Delhi against alleged violence against its cadres, Left leaders Brinda Karat, general secretary Sitaram Yechury and politburo member Prakash Karat accused the BJP of being responsible for the death of, and for causing grievous injuries to many CPM cadres in Kerala. They alleged that the violence was a result of BJP’s “insidious” attempt to communalise the southern state.
“We will not keep quite. We warn the BJP that if they do not stop violence then we will answer. We will not bow down,” Yechury said. Addressing party cadres in front of BJP headquarters, Yechury alleged that while the BJP was campaigning in Delhi against “Left violence” in Kerala, its cadres were still being subjected to violent attacks by political workers of the saffron outfits. On Sunday, Union
minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday said the kind of political violence that the ruling Left in Kerala allegedly indulged in “could not be tolerated” in a democracy and accused CPM of harbouring “anti-national” thoughts.
Rijiju was speaking at the Delhi leg of ‘Jan Raksha Yatra’, an ongoing campaign to highlight the “Left’s atrocities” in Kerala, which was also attended by Union minister V K Singh.
In his address, Singh stressed on the need to make people aware about the Left’s “politics of murders”. RSS workers had allegedly thrown bombs at Left cadres in Kannur, injuring five CPM workers and four police personnel.
CPM leaders said they were under attack by the RSS for upholding secular values, which they alleged was “anathema” to the BJP-RSS’ hate politics. Raising slogans of “RSS terror down, down” and “Khooni rajniti band karo” the Left procession was halted by the police near BJP’s party office.
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