VARKALA: Politician who defected to BJP from CPM was stabbed by unknown miscreants. The incident happened on Chemmaruthy panchayat in Varkala. 47-year-old Anil Kumar was attacked. The attack held when Anil Kumar was going home from the party office by 12 AM midnight. Anil Kumar who was stabbed by the miscreants also suffered a head injury. He was admitted to Thiruvananthapuram medical college later.

The miscreants also attacked his friend Baiju, who was accompanying Anil Kumar at the time of the attack. BJP alleged that both of their party men were attacked under the leadership of a prominent DYFI leader in the area. Anil Kumar who was a former CPI activist, after his long expatriate life, was working in BJP after coming back to Kerala. BJP demanded to arrest the accused immediately.