THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Pinarayi Vijayan and Leader of Opposition VD Satheesan on Wednesday locked horns in the Assembly accusing each other of pursuing special affinity with the BJP-RSS. The two engaged in the war of words while the adjournment motion on the bomb politics in Kannur moved by Sunny Joseph was being considered.
Sunny Joseph said that several BJP, RSS and CPM workers had lost their lives during the making of the bombs and mentioned the bomb blast in which CPM leader and state committee member P. Jayarajan's son was injured. He said that the local police investigated the case. Initially, it was said to be a festival cracker but later the police had to register a case against P. Jayarajan.
In his reply, Vijayan said that the Congress was intentionally not mentioning anything about communal forces like the RSS and the SDPI. He blamed the Congress and said that the opposition party was trying to create a narrative that the CPM was unleashing widespread violence in Kerala. "The Congress is deliberately not mentioning about communal forces like the RSS and the SDPI that are primarily responsible for the violence in Kannur. It had refused to condemn the killings of CPM activists by fundamentalist outfits. Congress won the Thrikkakkara by-election with the votes of such fundamentalists," the CM said.
Opposition leader V.D. Satheeshan said that the Chief Minister must own up to the fact that the police which was under him is not able to crack 80 percent of the bomb blast cases in Kannur district which is the home district of Pinarayi Vijayan. He also alleged that RSS leaders had sought votes for Pinarayi in the 1977 assembly elections. "In 1977, RSS leaders said that Pinarayi should win. Pinarayi also the stage with them," he said.
Satheesan added that Vijayan's party, the CPM had butchered a former CPM leader, T.P. Chandrashekaran who was killed by inflicting 52 cuts on his body. Satheesan said that Pinarayi Vijayan was the CPM state secretary during that time and that without the knowledge of Pinarayi such a killing could not have taken place. He added that he was not speaking much on the subject as the deceased Chandrashekaran's wife K.K. Rema was a UDF MLA and present in the House.