BJP men are being killed in Kerala on CM’s orders: Shah

BJP President Amit Shah on Sunday slammed the CPI-M government in Kerala over the "political killings" of BJP-RSS workers in the state, saying it was being done to "instil fear" among the people and prevent the BJP from expanding in the state.

Shah, addressing a Jan Raksha Yatra in the national capital, also alleged that the political killings in Kerala were being carried out on the "orders" of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. "Since the CPI-M (Communist Party of

India-Marxist) government came to power in Kerala, over 120 BJP workers have been killed. They killed them brutally," Shah said participating in the Jan Raksha Yatra from Central Park of Connaught Place to the CPI-M central office in Gole Market.

Shah asked when a man can be killed with a bullet "why are the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers being hacked into pieces?"

"It is being done because they want to give the message that if any one supports or joins the BJP they would be killed. It is being done to instil fear in the minds of the people to not support the BJP there," he said.

Shah was joined by Delhi BJP President Manoj Tiwari, MPs, MLAs, MCD leaders, and state office bearers. The BJP president also said that "the more Left parties indulge in politics of violence the more will the lotus bloom".

Shah also said that most of the killings had happened in the home district of the Kerala Chief Minister in Kannur. "In Kerala, when BJP people are killed, no arrest is made... All the murders are being done on the orders of the Chief Minister," he alleged.

"I want to tell the Communists and the Congress party which supports their ideology that Communism has ended all over the world and the Congress has ended in India," Shah said. "And the BJP, which started with only 10 party members, is now the world's biggest party with over 11 crore workers," he said.