Thiruvananthapuram: Resentment and voices of protest have risen in Kerala over the Centre and State leadership's inability to stop the brutal killing of Kutty.
People feel that timely intervention and action by India could have averted this tragedy.
Kutty, whose body has arrived in New Delhi, was kidnapped and killed by the Taliban when the Indian government failed to meet the 48-hour deadline for withdrawing their company, Border Roads Organisation (BRO), from Afghanistan.
People from all walks of life are saying that the government had failed to make the best use of the 48-hours the Taliban had offered to negotiate before killing Kutty.
The Opposition has further added fuel to the fire by saying that BRO should have stopped work the moment the kidnapping had taken place.
CPM Polit Bureau Member, VS Achutananthan, said, "If the government was serious in its work, we could have saved Kutty. The work should have been stopped immediately and we should have gone for talks. The inability for timley action have cost us a life."
People said the incident happened because India today does not have able leaders and moreover nobody cares for the poor.
"Those who need to take action will never do it, whatever people like us keep saying," said a shopkeeper in Kerala.
A truck driver added that when man goes abroad to work, his security is important.
"The government has to take care of it. In this case, even Kutty's dead body was left in the desert for two days. This is a big failure on the part of the state and central leadership."
People stated that India lacked political will and a strong leader at the Centre and thus could not bring Kutty back alive and sent out the message that every life is precious.
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