KANNUR: The National Development Front (NDF) alleged that the killing of two of its workers in the district by workers of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) betrays the latter’s organisational intolerance and its attitude of dominance.
Speaking at a press conference here on Tuesday, NDF general secretary P. Abdul Majeed Faizi said that NDF workers Muhammad Fasal and Zainuddin had been killed at Thalassery and Kakkayangad over a period of 18 months. Both had been done to death without any provocation as neither of them had attacked CPI(M) workers. Urging the CPI(M) leadership to explain what crime the two had committed that had provoked its cadres to kill them, Mr. Faizi said the latest killing at Kakkayangad was in defiance of the CPI(M)’s own declaration of peace in the presence of Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan in the wake of the outbreak of political killings by CPI(M) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh workers. The murder of Zainuddin had been carried out with full knowledge and consent of the party, he said adding that these attacks were taking place in the home district of Mr. Balakrishnan and party State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan.
Mr. Faizi asked CPI(M) leaders to make clear what the NDF should do to stop its workers being killed. He also alleged that the CPI(M)’s charge that its workers arrested in the Zainuddin murder case had been beaten up by the police was pressure tactics to subvert the police investigation. The CPI(M) had earlier denied the police of its professional freedom during the investigation into the Fasal murder case, he added. NDF zonal convener R.M. Abdurrahim and division convener K.K. Hisham also were present at the press meet.
Speaking at a press conference here on Tuesday, NDF general secretary P. Abdul Majeed Faizi said that NDF workers Muhammad Fasal and Zainuddin had been killed at Thalassery and Kakkayangad over a period of 18 months. Both had been done to death without any provocation as neither of them had attacked CPI(M) workers. Urging the CPI(M) leadership to explain what crime the two had committed that had provoked its cadres to kill them, Mr. Faizi said the latest killing at Kakkayangad was in defiance of the CPI(M)’s own declaration of peace in the presence of Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan in the wake of the outbreak of political killings by CPI(M) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh workers. The murder of Zainuddin had been carried out with full knowledge and consent of the party, he said adding that these attacks were taking place in the home district of Mr. Balakrishnan and party State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan.
Mr. Faizi asked CPI(M) leaders to make clear what the NDF should do to stop its workers being killed. He also alleged that the CPI(M)’s charge that its workers arrested in the Zainuddin murder case had been beaten up by the police was pressure tactics to subvert the police investigation. The CPI(M) had earlier denied the police of its professional freedom during the investigation into the Fasal murder case, he added. NDF zonal convener R.M. Abdurrahim and division convener K.K. Hisham also were present at the press meet.