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NEW DELHI: To launch protest against murder of 124 BJP and RSS workers in Kerala, BJP will kick off its fortnightlong Jan Raksha Yatra (people’s protection march) from Tuesday. The BJP national president Amit Shah will commence his three-day long protest march from Payyannur in Kannur, the home town of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.

While addressing newsmen here on Monday at the party headquarters, Union Human Resource and Development Minister Prakash Javdekar said that the protest march will end in Thiruvananthapuram on October 17. At least, one union minister would be present on each day of the march and some BJP chief ministers might also turn up.

The union minister also accused the ruling Left party for ‘murder politics’ and the “Communist Party-maoist” of being on a ‘killing spree’ against the saffron workers, due to the growing popularity of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state. “The CPI (M) is desperate and on a killing spree. It is doing murder politics in its desperation and people, including from the CPI (M), are joining the BJP,” Javadekar asserted.

He also alleged that, among 120 BJP workers, 84 have been killed in Kannur alone since 2001 and 14 of them since he took charge last year.

Apart from Javdekar, union ministers Ananth Kumar, Smriti Irani, Giriraj Singh, V K Singh, Dharmendra Pradhan and others would attend the Jan

Raksha Yatra march. On the day of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary, Javdekar also avouched that BJP would use democratic means to protest in the same manner Gandhi used non-violence to oppose the British.

Not only BJP and RSS workers, the minister also claimed that Congress workers have also been victimized of the Left led violence, but the party could not raise the issue much due to its proximity to the Left in central politics.

Meanwhile, ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections political experts see BJP reaping political mileage from the protest march, which would be part on foot and part in vehicles in the southern state.