Thiruvananthapuram: The BJP has denied any role in the killing of a CPM worker at Payyannur on Monday night and blamed the NDF for it. CPM worker C. V. Dhanaraj, 36, was hacked to death by an unidentified gang in the courtyard of his house near Payyannur town around 10 p.m. Within three hours, C.K. Ramachandran, 46, a local BMS leader, the labour wing of the RSS, was murdered at his home near Payyannur.
BJP state president Kummanam Rajasekharan said in Kozhikode on Tuesday that peace should prevail in Kannur district. He demanded that the real culprits should be booked and claimed that neither the RSS nor the BJP had any role in the killings. “The CPM is trying to nail the Sangh Parivar to unleash violence in the district. It is for this they have killed a BMS leader,” said Mr Kummanam.
A BJP leader told DC that within hours of the first murder, the CPM had concluded that the local BJP leaders were behind it. But its local leaders don’t have a ‘space’ there as it is a CPM party village. He said that tension had been prevailing in Payynnur after the Assembly elections, when the BJP increased its vote share.
“The CPM is trying to blame us so that their leaders or whoever is responsible for the killings of Danaraj and Ramachandran will be able to go scot-free,” he said. He added that internal strife had also been rampant in the CPM in Payyannur area for quite some time.
