Communist Party of India (Marxist) Idukki district secretary M.M.Mani has said that the case against him will be dealt both politically and legally.
Addressing media persons here after the secretariat and district committee meeting on Sunday, Mr Mani said that the district committee has no right to take any action against him.
He said that the party will organise a march to the DySP office at Thodupuzha on June 12 in which thousands of party workers will participate. It is to demand inquiry into the killing of Aneesh Rajan a DYFI leader, he said.
A decision on appearing the DySP office on June 6 has not been taken and it will be done after studying the legal side, he said.
He said that both the party leadership and he himself had said that it was (his statement at Manakkad near Thodupuzha last week) a mistake on his part and the case charged against him was the result of a conspiracy between the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the police. The district leadership of the UDF had connived to charge case against him, he said and asked how one could be arrested for making a speech.
Mr Mani said that the party has a constitutional framework to deal with issues and he will continue leading the party in the district. He said that he has no fear of being arrested and desisted from appearing before the media only to avoid controversy. ``I was very much at my house and had never gone underground,'' he said. The reports contrary to it were only media creation.
He said that he will make comments on V,S, Achuthanandan and he had only respect for him. ``There is no issue with the Communist Party of India (CPI) and it is not my duty to comment on that party,'' he said. It is the Left Democratic Front that will react on CPI and he holds in high esteem its State secretary Panniyam Ravindran, Mr Mani said.
It was only on Sunday after seven days of his controversial statement in Manakkad near Thodupuzha that Mr Mani appearing in public. At a party meeting at Manakkad, Mr Mani said that his party had prepared a list to kill its opponents and three of them had been eliminated in 1980s. A Special Investigation Team is inquiring into the political murders in the district in the wake of Mr Mani's statement and it issued notice to him for appearing before the DySP office at Thodupuzha on June 6 for answering questions.
