Date:31/10/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/31/stories/2008103153750500.htm

Kerala

BJP to publish blacklist of NDF aides

Staff Reporter

MALAPPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will soon publish a blacklist of politicians, bureaucrats and police officers lending support to organisations such as the National Development Front (NDF). The party will seek to segregate the blacklisted personnel, said BJP State secretary K. Janachandran here on Thursday.

He alleged that NDF agents had infiltrated not only into all political parties except the BJP but into the State’s police force as well.

He accused the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) of taking a soft stand towards the NDF, which he said was instrumental in “lifting Malappuram district to the global map of terrorism.”

The BJP will organise an ‘anti-terror week’ from Saturday. Marches and dharnas will be held in all district headquarters in the first week of November as part of raising public conscience against terrorism.

The BJP State secretary demanded that both the UDF and the LDF abandon their vote-bank political attitude, and be ready to look at dangerous elements such as the NDF and the People’s Democratic Party as terrorist groups.

The BJP leader described Minister for Local Administration Paloli Mohammed Kutty as a link between religious extremists and political extremists.