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Eachara Warrier to boycott polls

Staff Reporter

THRISSUR: Eachara Warrier and other members of the Emergency Victimised Patriots Forum have decided to boycott the local body elections as a mark of protest against the `unholy tie-up' between the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran).

Professor Warrier, president of the Forum while addressing its meeting at his residence here on Thursday and later talking to presspersons, said Mr. Karunakaran could not disown the responsibility for the custodial death of his son and engineering student P. Rajan during the Emergency. Mr. Karunakaran also had a role in the murder of the CPI(M) leader Azhikodan Raghavan.

Professor Warrier said he had told CPI(M) leaders earlier itself that a tie-up with Mr. Karunakaran would be detrimental to the party. ``But they seem to have decided to go ahead with the tie-up, and that is why I and my family have decided to boycott the elections this time. I have been voting for the Left right from 1951,'' he said.

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