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Using Gandhism against ‘violence’

KANNUR: The District Congress Committee (DCC) plans to rejuvenate the party local units here for equipping them to resist what it calls ‘political aggression’ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in the district.

DCC president P. Ramakrishnan said at a press conference here on Wednesday that the recently held district Congress camp here decided to strengthen party units from ward level onwards, motivating party workers with Gandhian principles of non-violence to resist CPI(M) cadres’ ‘Marxian violence.’

Observing that the CPI(M)’s ‘aggression’ was more serious than portrayed by the media reports, he said that the situation in the district was worse than Nandigram. Congress workers were constantly denied freedom of speech and at times, even freedom of mobility, he alleged.

The house of E.P. Harijayanthan Namboodiri, president of T.T.K. Devaswom, which controls temples of Taliparamba, Thrichambharam and Kannhirangad, was attacked by CPI(M) workers, he said alleging that the attack was in retaliation for Mr. Namboodiri’s refusal to appoint a party worker in the Devaswom.

Block Kerala Students’ Union vice-president Jayan was hospitalised with serious injuries after an attack by Students Federation of India (SFI) workers. The attack was apparently to avenge the former’s winning a students’ union of a self-financing arts and science college. In the Aralam Farm, CPI(M)-controlled Adivasi Kshema Samithi activists assaulted Adivasis occupying Block 9. The camp decided to fight the CPI (M) ‘aggression,’ the DCC president said. All Congress functionaries were instructed to wear khadi clothes. They would be asked to be in the forefront of anti-liquor campaigns. For strengthening party units, he said that the 1,550 party ward units in the district had been asked to mobilise Rs. 10,000 each.

A Shanthi Yatra will be taken out under the leadership of Leader of the Opposition Oommen Chandy and KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala from Payyannur to Thalassery from December 10, he said.

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