Says murders are nothing new to the party
The Idukki district secretary of the CPI(M) has stirred a hornets' nest and put his party on the defensive by telling a public meeting at Thodupuzha that the CPI(M) had indulged in killing of its enemies in the past.
By late Saturday evening, there were also sufficient hints of the State government moving towards reopening the cases referred to by Mr. Mani.
With TV channels beaming his speech right through the day on Saturday, there was instant demand from various quarters of the ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) for reinvestigation of the killings that he had referred to in his speech. Mr. Mani, as the televised version of his speech showed, said that faced with attacks from Congress leaders, the party had prepared a list of persons to be finished off and killed three of them. One of them was shot dead, the second beaten to death, and the third was stabbed to death, he said.
Although Mr. Mani later told TV channels that he was only recalling incidents that had happened in the distant past, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said the government would take a serious view of Mr. Mani's statement. The person who should react to Mr. Mani's statement was CPI(M) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, he said.
The Chief Minister is understood to have held discussions with Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishan and State Police Chief Jacob Punnoose at Tirur hours after his interaction with the media where the general consensus was that the cases in question would be revisited.
Earlier in the day, speaking to reporters in Alappuzha, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Ramesh Chennithala wanted both the Leader of the Opposition and the CPI(M) State secretary should clarify their stand on Mr. Mani's statement.
He also called upon the government and the police to initiate legal steps against Mr. Mani.
The government should order a probe into the political murders during the last 20 years in the wake of the statement, he said.
Keywords: CPI(M), Chandrashekaran murder
well done .finally spoke the truth
The self goal by Mani, Idukki district secretary for the past 25 years, worsened the situation for the CPI(M) which was already beleaguered by the arrests of its leaders for killing Marxist rebel TP Chandrasekharan of Onchiyam in Kozhikode district, especially on a day the party held a huge programme to protest against these arrests and to warn the Government.
It is wonderful that mani played out kommies agenda that was meticulously implemented.
However, if mani and cohorts escaped the eighties and nineties well theere is no longer such
easy escape routes are available. The police is always empowere to reinvestigae. The cbi or
the nia also can assist.the type statements we heard can come off only from such follish
politicians
Alas theirdays andd futures are counted. There will be no more monys in future in kerala
politics.
M.M.Mani is not a small fry and no sane person in Kerala would believe
that it was just a slip of tongue.There are no parallels to this
activity if proven right.It would only be in the best interests of the
nation as a whole to take a second look in to the topic he brought
forth in the public domain.The party normally takes credit of having
fought against mighty landlords and rulers in the past and normally
the contributions of the likes of AKG has no parallels either.But
taking the lives of ordinary folks tantamount to crude criminality and
from the social point of view this should be dealt in the larger
interest of the society and not to be treated as a joke.For a thinking
person even the few acts of annihilations committed by the Naxalites
in the seventies which rocked the nation looks credible in hindsight
because those at the receiving end were "savage landlords" in their
view and they declared in earnest the responsibility for the acts and
accepted punishment with dignity as well
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