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VS warns against violence

Staff Reporter

Says people will not tolerate ‘politics of murder’

Says CPI(M) believes in democratic means
Flays RSS for indulging in violence

PALAKKAD: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan has said that political parties and organisations that practise ‘politics of murder’ by annihilating their opponents will be isolated by the people.

Distributing financial assistance to the families of two CPI(M) workers, Gopalakrishnan and Raveendran, who were murdered at Kadukkamkunnu, near Malampuzha, recently, the Chief Minister said here on Sunday that the party did not intent to take up arms to meet the violent politics being resorted to by the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) against party workers in the State.

He said the party did not want to make the State a centre of political violence. But this should not be considered as a weakness of the party that wanted to settle political differences through democratic means.

Those who took up arms against others would end up being victims of their own violence.

He said this was proved time and again. But the RSS in Kerala did not learn any lesson from that and they were continuing to murder their political opponents, particularly CPI(M) workers.

Relief handed over

Mr. Achuthanandan handed over Rs.5 lakh collected by the Mundur area committee of the CPI(M) to Kumari and Yeshoda, widows of Gopalakrishnan and Raveendran respectively, at a public meeting at Kadukkamkunnu.

The Chief Minister said that the widows of the victims had been given temporary employment in the cattle-feed factory of Milma at Malampuzha where their deceased husbands were working.

Steps would be taken to make their jobs permanent. The CPI(M) would also take care of the education of their children, the Chief Minister said.

The meeting was presided by V.K. Jayaprakash, Mundur area committee secretary of the CPI(M). N.N. Krishnadas, MP, and party leaders A. Prabhakaran and T.N. Kandamuthan, spoke.

Minister’s demand

PTI adds from Kozhikode: Blaming the RSS for the killing of a CPI(M) worker in Thalassery, Industries Minister Elamaram Karim urged the Congress-led United Democratic Front to condemn such attacks vehemently.

“Opposition parties should come in the open and condemn such heinous acts loudly,” he said after visiting the medical college hospital here where the body of Jijesh, the CPI(M) activist who had been killed, was kept.

Noting that it was the fourth fatal attack in recent times and second during the month, the Industries Minister alleged that the RSS was carrying out such attacks “without provocation.”

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