League resorting to unprovoked attacks: Pinarayi

By Our Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JUNE 3. The CPI(M) State secretary, Mr. Pinarayi Vijayan, has accused the Muslim League of having launched violent attacks on CPI(M) cadres in Kasaragod and Kozhikode and demanded to know whether the Chief Minister, Mr. A. K. Antony, approved of the kind of attacks that had taken place in the two districts during the last two days.

"The Muslim League is drunk with victory and its cadres are taking it out on CPI(M) cadres as had happened in the Cheruvathoor-Padanna areas of Kasaragod and Kallachi in Kozhikode during the last few days. We do not understand why the League is indulging in such provocative actions. But must not delude themselves that they can get away with such arrogant behaviour," Mr. Vijayan said at a news conference here today.

The CPI(M) leader said the incidents in the Cheruvathoor-Padanna areas were totally unprovoked and seemed to indicate premeditation on the part of the local League leadership.

It was natural for any party to organise rallies to felicitate Assembly poll winners. Anybody who knew the terrain would say that the route chosen to take the new Local Administration Minister, Mr. Cherkalam Abdulla, was most mysterious.

It should have gone through a direct route. But, for some reason, the organisers chose a circuitous route passing through certain trouble spots.

There were about 1,000 cars in the procession and the processionists started pelting stones at commercial establishments run by persons towards whom the League was hostile.

Some of the outriders also abused and misbehaved towards girls and women standing at the Cheruvathoor bus stand. That the attacks were premeditated should be evident from the fact that five offices of the CPI(M), including its district committee and area committee offices, and district offices of the NGO Union and KSTA were destroyed.

Several shops and about 50 vehicles also came under attack. Three factories of the Dinesh Beedi Cooperative were fully gutted.

Mr. Vijayan said the murder of the DYFI worker, Binu, at Kallachi also formed part of a design. Binu was falsely implicated in the case relating to alleged rape of a woman as part of the Nadapuram incidents and League cadres have been clamouring for his blood ever since.

Binu was not at the spot at the time of the alleged incident as he had gone to the Medical College hospital with some of those injured in clashes. Medical reports had also proved the rape story to be false, but the League leadership deliberately raised a bogey and had now done away with Binu.

Mr. Vijayan rebutted the suggestion that the murder could have been averted if the police had arrested Binu. The police, he said, had arrested all those who were allegedly involved in the incident and registered cases against them.

He wanted to know if the Muslim League proposed to persist with such attacks and wondered why the Chief Minister and other senior leaders of the UDF were observing silence about these incidents.

The CPI(M) did not propose to fall into the trap set by the League. It would rather try to rally all democratic sections to fight such tendencies, he said.

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