Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan has
alleged a high level conspiracy to frame his party in the murder of
Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) leader T.P. Chandrasekharan late
Friday night.
Addressing a news conference on Saturday, the CPI(M) State
secretary alleged that the conspiracy had been hatched by the ruling
United Democratic Front (UDF) leadership to malign the CPI(M) on the eve
of the Neyyattinkara by-election. The CPI(M), he said, did not believe
in finishing off its enemies, he said.
Mr. Vijayan, who spoke to the media after a meeting of the CPI(M) State
secretariat, said the statements by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, Union
Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran, State Home Minister
Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee
president Ramesh Chennithala and other UDF leaders blaming the CPI(M)
clearly pointed to the UDF conspiracy to frame the party, which had
nothing to do with Chandrasekharan's murder, he said.
The statements by the Chief Minister and other UDF leaders, he
contended, would result in the real culprits escaping the arms of the
law. There were reports that Chandrasekharan himself had complained
about threat to his life. If that was so, the government should answer
the question why he was not given adequate protection. When the failure
of the government and the police to provide him protection and the
attempt to blame the CPI(M) for the murder were read together, the only
conclusion was that there was a conspiracy to unleash a witch hunt
against the CPI(M) in the name of the murder.
At the time of the Piravom by-election, the UDF had engineered CPI(M)
MLA R. Selvaraj's resignation from the party. Now that it was clear that
others like him were not easy to come by, the attempt was to defame the
CPI(M) and the LDF in the name of Chandrasekharan's murder. Going by
reports, the murder was committed by a ‘quotation gang.' The CPI(M)
believed in opposing its enemies politically and not with the help of
‘quotation gangs.' The guilty should be brought before the law. For
that, there should be a free and fair investigation. Instead of ensuring
that, the Chief Minister and Ministers were trying to set the agenda
for the investigation. The real culprits should not be allowed to escape
amidst all the false campaign, Mr. Vijayan said.
(Source : The Hindu)
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