RSS worker Praveen was attacked while he was going home in Kerala's Kannur.
An RSS activist was attacked with sharp weapons by unidentified men in northern Kerala's Kannur last evening. Hours later, in a separate incident, five BJP workers were attacked just five km away from where the RSS worker was attacked. Police said four men were beaten up and the fifth man was attacked with a sharp weapon.
Police suspect both attacks to be cases of political violence.
The worker of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the BJP's ideological mentor, who has been identified as Praveen, was walking home when he was attacked at around 7:30 in in the evening. The man, in his mid-thirties, has been taken to a hospital in the neighbouring district of Kozhikode.
"The attacks last night were by suspected CPM activists," a police official said.
The politically volatile town of Kannur has often witnessed violent clashes between workers of the Left and the RSS-BJP. Last week, homes and cars of CPM members were attacked in Kannur's Azhikode village amid tension between CPM and the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI)
The BJP and the Left in Kerala have blamed each other for of political murders and violent attacks on their supporters
The BJP has alleged that since 2001, nearly 120 of its workers have been killed across the state by Left cadres - 14 of them, the party claims, in Kannur since the Left Democratic Front or LDF government came to power in May last year.
Since then, there have been several rounds of peace talks between the two fronts.
Last month,
a 23-year-old RSS activist accused in the murder of a Left worker, was stabbed to death by unidentified men in central Kerala's Thrissur district.
In July this year, Rajesh Edavakode, an RSS worker died after a brutal attack in which his palm was chopped off near Thiruvananthapuram.