Thiruvananthapuram: In Kannur's Pappinassery panchayat, neighbours have gathered at the house where 27-year-old Sujith used to live. One of the handful of BJP workers in this CPM bastion, he was hacked to death late on Monday night, allegedly by more than 15 CPM sympathisers.
In Sujith's room, his clothes are still hanging. His mother is yet to come to terms with her son's murder. "Nothing but politics took my son's life. He was threatened even before," said Sujith's father, Janardhanan P. Both parents were attacked as they tried to save their son.
Sujith is the last of the 41 people killed over politics in Kannur over the last decade. Of the deceased, 19 were from CPM, 17 from RSS, two from NDF and three from IUML.
Sujith, a one-time CPM activist, played an active role in that since he joined the BJP three years ago. This, the BJP leaders say, was why he was killed.
Denying any role in Sujith's murder, CPM leaders cite examples of their own party victims. Like 27-year-old Samesh admitted in AKG hospital, who lost his leg after RSS activists allegedly hurled a country-made bomb at him in January.
"The BJP, RSS try to spread communal violence and it is only the CPM which resists them. That's why we are being targetted. It's our cadre who get killed, but no one asks about that," CPM Parliamentarian KK Ragesh told NDTV.
In Sujith's room, his clothes are still hanging. His mother is yet to come to terms with her son's murder. "Nothing but politics took my son's life. He was threatened even before," said Sujith's father, Janardhanan P. Both parents were attacked as they tried to save their son.
Sujith is the last of the 41 people killed over politics in Kannur over the last decade. Of the deceased, 19 were from CPM, 17 from RSS, two from NDF and three from IUML.
Sujith, a one-time CPM activist, played an active role in that since he joined the BJP three years ago. This, the BJP leaders say, was why he was killed.
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Denying any role in Sujith's murder, CPM leaders cite examples of their own party victims. Like 27-year-old Samesh admitted in AKG hospital, who lost his leg after RSS activists allegedly hurled a country-made bomb at him in January.
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"The BJP, RSS try to spread communal violence and it is only the CPM which resists them. That's why we are being targetted. It's our cadre who get killed, but no one asks about that," CPM Parliamentarian KK Ragesh told NDTV.
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