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CPI(M) will not be allowed to exploit election results, says BJP chief

Staff Reporter

P.S. Sreedharan Pillai

KOLLAM: P.S. Sreedharan Pillai, State president of the BJP, has said that his party will not allow the CPI(M) to exploit the results of the local body elections to convert the State into another West Bengal.

At a meet-the-press programme here on Wednesday, he alleged that the CPI(M) had made an attempt to launch the West Bengal model in Kannur district during the local body elections.

The CPI(M) claimed that its candidates had won from 100 divisions unopposed in Kannur district. Mr. Pillai alleged that this was achieved by the CPI(M) through sheer intimidation. Candidates from other parties were threatened and not allowed to contest. In the last local body elections in West Bengal, the CPI(M) adopted this modus operandi at 23,000 wards or divisions and claimed to have won them unopposed. The same modus operandi was used in Kannur.

He said that his party would launch a special campaign in Kannur district to counter the CPI(M) moves. In one village in Kannur where there were just 12 families of BJP sympathisers, the CPI(M) had given a deadline to the 12 families to leave the village, he alleged. The BJP would give protection to these families to maintain their right of living in the same village. For the coming byelection for the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat, the BJP would contest to win. The former Union Minister O. Rajagopal is a contender, he said. The name of the candidate will be announced after the party's State committee meeting on October 15.

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