CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan said on Friday that his party will face the repressive measures of the UDF Government by organising public agitations mobilising the people.
He visited party district secretary P Jayarajan at the Central Prison, the Taliparamba Cooperative Hospital and some of the houses attacked by the police in Payyanur. Later, Pinarayi told mediapersons that the police lathicharge on the people and party leaders was designed to cause a terror situation.
He said that Kannur area secretary N Chandran was brutally beaten up by the police when he was trying to pacify the agitated party workers.
“The attack on N Chandran was not an isolated incident, but a planned action carried out with the knowledge of the higher-ups with the aim of silencing party leaders,” he alleged.
Criticising the statement made by Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan and Chief Minister Oommen Chandy that amendments to the existing laws would be brought to give imprisonment for seven years to those who speak against the police, Pinarayi said that they should learn the fate of the rulers who had brought in such black laws to retain power in the past. He asked the Home Minister to think of the fate of those who brought TADA and the present state of that black law.
Pinarayi alleged that Muslim League workers were responsible for the attack on the Taliparamba Cooperative Hospital and the murder of DYFI leader Manoj in Kanhangad. He said that the Muslim League had ceased to be a political party and had become an extremist outfit.
“The arrest of P Jayarajan and the appointment of a KPCC executive committee member as the special prosecutor in the Shukkoor murder case are enough to expose the political motive of the Oommen Chandy government behind the police action against the CPM leaders,” he added.
Replying to a question, Pinarayi said that the CPM was not responsible for any of the violent incidents that took place in the district, claiming that his party had always stood against violence.
CPM leaders M V Govindan, P K Sreemathi and K P Sahadevan were also present at the press conference.
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