Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah has slammed the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] for indulging in political violence against his party’s cadres to suppress the party’s growth in the State.
Laying the foundation stone for a new building for the party’s State unit here on Sunday, Mr. Shah said the CPI(M)’s political violence cannot stop “more lotuses blooming” in the State.
The Chief Minister and his party were mistaken if they think they could intimidate the BJP. He said his party had found it difficult to conduct its political work owing to the violence against RSS-BJP workers whenever the LDF came to power. As many as 13 RSS-BJP workers had been killed. “It is a shame that most of the killings should have occurred in Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s home district, Kannur,” he said. He made it clear that his party would take the legal recourse to ensure that the perpetrators of violence get the maximum punishment under the law.
