Take responsibility of political violence, Shah tells Kerala CM
BJP President Amit Shah on Tuesday hit out at Kerala’s CPI(M)-led LDF over the political violence in the state, asking Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan if he was prepared to take moral responsibility for the “killing of 13 innocent BJP/RSS workers.”
Addressing party workers at the Puthrikandam maidan here on the conclusion of the party’s 15-day ‘Jan Raksha’ Yatra in the state, Shah alleged that the 13 workers were killed after the present government came to power in May last year, reports PTI.
“I am asking the Kerala chief minister, whether he is prepared to take moral responsiblity for the killing of 13 BJP/RSS workers in the state after the LDF government came to power.”
“CM saheb, if you want to fight us, let us fight in terms of development and ideology,” he said.
Shah said if the Marxist party feels that BJP/RSS workers can be eliminated through violence even after 70 years of independence, “they are mistaken.”
“I will like to tell CPI(M) that it is not possible,” the BJP chief said.
He also asked Vijayan whether people had given him the mandate for elimination of BJP/RSS workers in the state.
Earlier, Shah walked with party workers for about two km from the Martyr’s column at Palayam to Putharikandam maidan, near the famous Padmanabhaswamy temple.