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Congress lashes out at Kodiyeri

KANNUR: The district Congress leadership has said that Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan cannot get away from taking responsibility for the clashes between ‘criminal’ elements in the Bharatiya Janata Party and Communist Party of India (Marxist) that have left three CPI(M) workers dead.

The District Congress Committee (DCC), in a statement here, termed as baseless the allegation by the Minister that blind ‘anti-Marxism’ of the United Democratic Front (UDF) leadership was encouraging Sangh Parivar workers to instigate violence in the district. Stating that the Minister’s comments were meant to divert attention from his own ‘failure,’ the statement added that if the police had been allowed to take action against criminals regardless of their party affiliations, the incidents of violence would not have taken place. It alleged that CPI(M) and Sangh Parivar workers were engaged in country bomb making on a large scale.

The statement said that the Shanti Yatra led by Leader of the Opposition Oommen Chandy and Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Ramesh Chennithala from Payyannur to Thalassery had been organised when Kerala Students Union and Youth Congress workers in the district had come under attacks from CPI(M) cadres. The Home Minister’s view that all those who condemned the CPI(M)’s ‘terror’ were RSS sympathisers could not be accepted. The DCC would organise a Jana Munneta Yatra in the district from January 22 to 28, the statement said.

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