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Congress accuses police of colluding with CPI(M)

Staff Reporter

KANNUR: District Congress Committee (DCC) president P. Ramakrishnan has accused the police of colluding with Communist Party of India (Marxist) in carrying out what he called the latter's `politics of aggression' in the district.

Speaking at a press conference here on Thursday, Mr. Ramakrishnan said that violence at Chalad since Tuesday night was the latest example of the CPI(M)'s practice of muscle power to intimidate the people living in an area which was a stronghold of the Congress.

The police were now protecting the culprits who were CPI(M) workers and fabricating cases against the victims of the violence.

"The police here are the prime accused as the force was behaving like a feeder organisation of the CPI(M)," he said.

The DCC president said that the trouble started at Chalad after two young Congress workers were attacked on Tuesday night.

It was followed by an attack by a group of masked men on the house of a Congress supporter, Karunakaran, whose nephew Jithin was a CPI(M) activist. He said that the attack on the house was either scripted by Jithin or scripted for him by the CPI(M).

DCC charge

Mr. Karunakaran, who had recently offered a building to the local party workers to be used as Congress office, was led to believe that his house was attacked by Congress workers, Mr. Ramakrishnan said adding that the motive was to dissuade him from handing over the building to the local Congress workers.

Mr. Ramakrishnan said that the police registered a case against Pallikkunnu panchayat president and Congress worker Rakesh in connection with the attack on Mr. Karunakaran's house at around 1.30 a.m. on Wednesday. Mr. Rakesh was with him at that time, he said adding that the police registered case against him as per the instruction of the district unit of the Kerala Police Association.

The panchayat president's house was surrounded by the police this morning and his relatives were intimidated. The CPI(M) workers also exploded country bombs inside the panchayat office compound in the morning to create a tension in the region, he added.

He said that the Congress workers in the district were in a do-or-die situation with the CPI(M) workers resorting to `naked violation' of democratic rights.

The Congress would resort to strong agitation unless the police ended the nexus between a section of it and the CPI(M), he said.

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