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`CPI(M) taking revenge on Karunakaran'

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Ramesh Chennithala says resentment brewing in CPI(M), DIC(K) over poll tie-up

KANNUR: Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Ramesh Chennithala said on Friday that the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was taking political revenge on senior leader K. Karunakaran by putting the blame on him for all the excesses occurred in the State over the last three decades.

"CPI(M) leader V. S. Achuthanandan is trying to put the onus for all the excesses during the last 30 years on Mr. Karunakaran who does not deserve this kind of treatment. The CPI(M) is taking revenge on Mr. Karunakaran,'' the KPCC president said at a Meet-the-Press programme organised by the Kannur Press Club here. He said charging Mr. Karunakaran with culpability for all the incidents of the past, including the murder of CPI(M) leader Azhikodan Raghavan and the custody death of Rajan, exposed the political immorality of the CPI(M).

He also said that past incidents were being resuscitated by the CPI(M) as it had no issues to be raised against the UDF Government during the campaign. State secretary of the CPI(M) Pinarayi Vijayan owed an explanation on Mr. Achuthanandan's statement.

Terming the CPI(M)-Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran) electoral alliance as `queer' and `farcical,' Mr. Chennithala said workers of both the parties were expressing resentment towards the tie-up.

He said the argument that this `strange' electoral tie-up was to eliminate the Congress was `baseless.'

He was hopeful that the disgruntled workers of both the parties would vote as per their conscience. He said Mr. Karunakaran was herding his supporters to the CPI(M) slaughter house,'' he said urging DIC(K) workers to think about the `tragedy' that would befall them if they went to the CPI(M) camp. The CPI(M) should state whether it would share power with the DIC(K) after the local body elections, he said.

The KPCC chief alleged that the CPI(M) was violating the people's democratic and civic rights in Kannur.

A `Marxist mafia' group was making arrangements here by weakening the police machinery, he said.

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