New Delhi: BJP chief Amit Shah on Sunday alleged that “politics of violence” is in the nature of the communists as he led a march to the CPM office here over political killings in Kerala which was criticised by the Left party.
Leading the ‘Jan Raksha Yatra’, the BJP’s ongoing campaign to highlight “Left’s atrocities” in Kerala, Mr Shah alleged that the Left workers were killing and terrorising BJP and RSS workers in the southern state which is ruled by the CPM-led government.
Mr Shah led the march from central Delhi’s Connaught Place to the CPM headquarters in the Gole Market area, a distance of about 1.5 km. In his address, Mr Shah said that no amount of intimidation can stop the lotus (BJP’s symbol) from blooming in the Left-ruled state.
He hit out at Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, alleging that the maximum killings of BJP and RSS workers have taken place in the latter’s home district.
“Since the Left came to power in Kerala, several workers of the BJP and Sangh (RSS) have been killed. The killings are brutal, bodies are chopped into pieces. It is done to terrorise those who support the BJP that they will meet the same fate. But the more muck of murders they spread, the lotus will bloom better,” Mr Shah said.
“Politics of violence is in their (communists’) nature. It is not a coincidence that the maximum political violence is reported from West Bengal, Tripura and Kerala where the communists have been in power for long,” he said.
Soon after Mr Shah led the march to the CPM office, CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury at a press meet, said that the BJP campaign was a “flop show”. Responding to Mr Shah’s charge that the Left workers were killing and terrorising BJP and RSS workers in Kerala, Yechury alleged that the Sangh was “responsible for starting political violence” in Kerala.
