Hindustan Times (Amritsar)

CPI(M)’s violence can’t stop us: Shah

- Ramesh Babu rbabu@hindustant­imes.com

TH I RU VAN ANT HA PU RAM:BJ Pp resident Am it Shah slammed Kerala’s Pinarayi Vijayan government on Tuesday, stating that the Left Front will be thrown out of power if it continues to indulge in “politics of hatred and intoleranc­e”.

Addressing the valedictor­y session of the party’ s two-weeklong Jan ra ks ha Ya train the state capital, Shah said it was sad that people with differing political views were not being allowed to function in certain parts of Kerala even after Independen­ce.

“I would like to ask the CM if the mandate he received from the people was for developing the state or liquidatin­g his political opponents? It is sad that the maximum number of political murder sin the state occurred in his district – Kannur. He has to take responsibi­lity for this,” he said.

Shah had flagged off the Janraksha Yatra from Kannur in north Kerala on October 3.

“Violence is the trademark of communists, and political murders only multiplied after they came to power in Kerala ,” he said, adding that violence can not curb BJP’s growth in the state.

Shah also accused the ruling front of evolving a discreet understand­ing with the Congress. “There is a secret deal between the two, which is why no action has been taken against former CM O om men Ch andy despite his indictment by a judicial commission ,” he said.

The B JP president said the Left government will soon succumb to its own politics of violence, just like the Congress capitulate­d to its “legacy of corruption and dynastic politics”. “The CPI(M) can unleash as much violence as it wants, but it can’t stop our ideology. The more mud CM Vijayan slings, the better will the lotus bloom in Kerala,” he said.

He also criticised CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury for objecting to the BJP organising rallies outside the headquarte­rs of rival parties.

HC DIRECTIVE TO GOVT

The Kerala HC on Tuesday directed the state government to spell out its stand on a CBI probe into the alleged political killings of RSS, BJP activists that took place in the state after C PI( M )- led LDF came to power.

Hearing a petition filed by Th alas se ry-based Gopalan Adiyodi Vakkeel Smaraka Trust, the HC directed the government to file a counter affidavit by October 25.

Violence is trademark of communists, and political murders only multiplied after they came to power in Kerala... The more mud CM Vijayan slings, the better the lotus will bloom in the state.

AMIT SHAH, BJP president

 ??  ?? BJP president Amit Shah leads the Janraksha Yatra in Kerala’s capital Thiruvanan­thapuram on Tuesday. VIVEK NAIR/HT
BJP president Amit Shah leads the Janraksha Yatra in Kerala’s capital Thiruvanan­thapuram on Tuesday. VIVEK NAIR/HT

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