Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leaders have called for an inquiry by an independent agency into the incidents of violence near Taliparamba here a few days ago in which a party worker was hacked to death.
The leaders including Panakkad Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal, K.P.A. Majeed, P.K.K. Bava and M.C. Mayan Haji said at a press conference here on Wednesday after visiting the house of the slain IUML worker Abdul Shukkoor at Ariyil that despite being informed of the imminent attack on Shukkoor and other IUML activists staying in a house at Kannapuram police personnel at the Kannapuram Police Station had acted in a way that raised suspicion about possible collusion between the police there and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) leadership.
Stating that the issue would be brought to the notice of the State government, the leaders said that the government should order an inquiry by any independence agency into the incidents before and after the killing.
Accusing the CPI(M) of resorting to politics of violence in the district, the IUML leadership said that Shukkoor had been brutally killed by CPI(M) workers in a way that recalled the methods of ‘Naxalbari’ politics. Disclosing that Shukkoor had not been a very active worker of the IUML, they said that the CPI(M) workers hacked him to death after spreading that the CPI(M) leaders had been assaulted by the IUML workers at Ariyil near Taliparamabaa. The CPI(M) was trying to make political gains by creating a tense situation, they said.
The IUML leaders also said that the areas they visited on Wednesday were backward areas though the CPI(M) enjoyed dominance there. The CPI(M) was using its hegemony to instigate violence and not to bring development in these areas, he added. They also said that the IUML had decided to help the family of Shukkoor.
IUML leaders P.K. Abdul Khader Moulavi and P.K. Zubair were also present at the press meet.
