A meeting of the State office-bearers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held here on Wednesday constituted a four-member committee to apprise the Union government of the development concerns and immediate needs of the State.
BJP State vice-president M.T. Ramesh will be the convener of the committee comprising senior leaders P.S. Sreedharan Pillai, C.K. Padmanabhan, and George Kurian. The committee will prepare a blueprint for the development of the State before meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other Union Ministers in New Delhi.
Briefing newspersons about the meeting, BJP State president V. Muraleedharan demanded that the State government seek ‘legal and administrative measures’ for ordering a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the conspiracy angles in the Marad massacre, killing of Yuva Morcha leader K.T. Jayakrishnan, and murder of Revolutionary Marxist Party leader T.P. Chandrasekaharan.
The Centre should also be involved in this process. The BJP State leaders will meet Chief Minister Oommen Chandy in this regard. The Thomas P. Joseph Commission, which inquired into the massacre, had recommended probing the larger conspiracy in the planning and execution of nine persons at the seaside village of Marad on May 2, 2003.
He said the meeting discussed the Lok Sabha results in the State and the formation of the BJP-led government at the Centre. The party would organise political meetings in 20 constituencies in the State, beginning June.
