The call given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah to march to the CPI(M) central committee office, A.K.G. Bhavan, in Delhi is a public exhortation to foment violence and anarchy in the country, CPI(M) State secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has said.
Mr. Balakrishnan said in a statement here on Wednesday that their call was a strange action aimed at silencing the communists who were fighting the misdeeds of the government and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The campaign that the CPI(M) was targeting RSS and BJP workers was aimed at covering up the murder politics of the Sangh Parivar. Mr. Shah’s bid to place the onus for the political murders on Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan smacked of his irresponsibility.
The number of CPI(M) workers who were killed by RSS workers was much higher than that of the BJP-RSS workers who had lost their lives in such incidents. Mr. Modi himself had directed the BJP national executive to march to the CPI(M) office. Mr. Shah had called for holding similar marches in other State headquarters too. This amounted to violation of democratic and fundamental rights of the people, he said.
He accused Mr. Shah of trying to unleash violence by holding the yatra in Kerala. Violence erupted at Karivalloor and Cheruvathoor on Tuesday. He called upon party workers to exercise self-restraint and not to be provoked by such incidents.
