KANNUR: CPM leader Karayi Rajan resigned as president of the Kannur district panchayat on Saturday. This was in the wake of the High Court’s dismissal of the pleas of both Karayi Rajan and Karayi Chandrasekharan seeking to lift the curbs on their movement out of Ernakulam district. Karayi Rajan is the eighth accused in the Fasal murder case.
Karayi Chandrasekharan is seventh accused in the case. Karayi Rajan handed over his resignation to the district panchayat secretary after attending the CPM district secretariat meeting here in the morning.
“The victims are not getting justice nowadays. None, including the media, is after the culprit,” Mr Rajan told reporters. The CPM party meeting was held in the presence of CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan.
Mr Karayi Chandrasekharan, chairman of Thalasserry municipality, too will resign after the CPM area committee meeting on February 8.
The CPM had fielded both of them in the local body polls expecting a favourable ruling from the court.
