Congress leader K. Sudhakaran has accused the Communist Party of India (Marxist) leaders of repeatedly portraying him as a 'political criminal' by referring to past cases, including the case of murder attempt on E.P. Jayarajan.
He challenged the CPI(M) leaders to prove that Mr. Jayarajan was still living with a live bullet in his head allegedly fired at him on board a train 14 years ago. In a rejoinder to charges levelled at him by Mr. Jayarajan, Mr. Sudhakaran told a press conference here on Monday that the CPI(M) leaders had been repeatedly saying publicly that he was involved in the murder attempt on the CPI(M) leader on board the Rajadhani Express at Chirala in Andhra Pradesh on April 12, 1995 while travelling from New Delhi to Kannur.
Showing the copy of the FIR registered at the Chirala police station, Mr. Sudhakaran said that the complainant, that is Mr. Jayarajan, had not said that he was fired at on that day. The FIR showed Mr. Jayarajan's complaint that a 30-year old man with dark complexion and long hair had hit him on the back of his head with a blunt weapon. Mr. Jayarajan had then gone to Chennai and got himself admitted to a private hospital there. The entire case of Mr. Jayarajan's attempted murder was on the basis of a report from the hospital, he said.
"Is Mr. Jayarajan ready to prove that he is still carrying live bullet in his head as he often tells? If proved, I will do whatever he says", Mr. Sudhakaran said. He said that he was not an accused in the murder attempt case. The CPI(M) had approached even the Supreme Court to include him as an accused on the basis of a fabricated private petition, he said. The Supreme Court had rejected the appeal to list him as an accused.
The CPI(M) leaders were also trying to implicate him in the Nalpady Vasu murder case, Mr. Sudhakaran said, adding that Vasu had died when his gunman entrusted with his safety opened fire when a mob of CPI(M) workers had attacked his convoy near Mattannur on March 4, 1993. The Congress leader claimed that he was not an accused in the case registered by the Mattannur police in connection with the incident, but later included as an accused on the basis of a private petition.
He urged the CPI(M) leaders to put an end to this 'culture of telling lies' about him.
