The Communist Party of India (Marxist) is trying to destroy the morale of the police by unleashing negative propaganda against the force, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Ramesh Chennithala has alleged.
The KPCC chief, accompanied by Congress leader P.J. Kurien and District Congress Committee president P. Mohanraj, was addressing a press conference at Aranmula on Saturday afternoon.
He alleged that the CPI(M) leaders were levelling baseless charges even against upright and efficient police officials, with a dubious design to malign the law-and-order machinery.
Mr. Ramesh called upon the CPI(M) leadership to clarify the party's stand on various political murders that took place in the State. The people of Kerala knew well that the CPI(M) was behind most of these political killings, he alleged.
He said the police had arrested as many as 28 persons in connection with the murder of Revolutionary Marxist Party leader T.P. Chandrasekharan and a majority of them were identified as either activists or supporters of the CPI(M). Though CPI(M) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan had promised stern action if any party worker was found involved in the murder, the Communist leader was maintaining a studied silence on the arrest of more than two dozen party workers in connection with the case, the KPCC leader alleged.
Mr. Chennithala said the people of Kerala had never believed any of the stories told by the CPI(M) in connection with the killing of Chandrasekharan as a majority of the arrested were connected with the party in one way or the other.
If the CPI(M) had nothing to do with the murder of Chandrasekharn, why its leaders in Kannur had been reportedly absconding ever since the investigation into the case had strengthened, the KPCC chief asked.
He alleged that the CPI(M) had been putting one or the other hurdle on the path of the investigation agency and unnecessarily interfering in the investigation process.
The KPCC president alleged that the CPI(M) leaders in the State were trying to portray the media people as corrupt for exposing the truth behind Chandrasekharan's killing and other political killings before the common people.
BJP-CPI(M) nexus alleged
Mr. Chennithala alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party had been playing second fiddle to the CPI(M) in the State. He alleged that the BJP and CPI(M) were jointly trying to shield the culprits in the murder of school teacher Jayakrishnan Master inside a classroom. Ironically, the BJP had not been organising the Jayakrishnan Master commemoration meet for the past three years, he alleged.
Mr. Chennithala said that stern action should be taken against the criminal elements, if any, in the police force as mentioned in the report submitted by the former Additional Director General of Police Sibi Mathews.
