The killing of Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) leader TP Chandrasekharan in the night of 4th May at Kozhikode has shocked and outraged the conscience of the state. A defenceless man was mercilessly hacked to death in the dead of the night by some brutes, who planned and murdered the ex-CPI (M) leader in cold blood. The unidentified assailants who were travelling in a car, hurled country made bombs at TP Chandrasekharan, who was riding a bike, and hacked him to death using sharp weapons. This murder with a lot of political overtones has since become a matter of great political controversy in the state and it has put the CPI (M) in a fix as many of its activists and local leaders are getting arrested on murder charges.
No other political occurrence since TP murder has shocked and appalled the state as much as the hate speech by MM Mani, the Idukki District Secretary of the CPI (M). His revelation that the CPI (M) had in the past planned and killed their political enemies shocked the whole state. It was not a general statement, but the speech was made with all the specifics of the killing mentioned in it, about the places of those killings, about who was killed and about how each of them was killed. He boasted that the party activists shot dead one political foe, another one was beaten to death and a third one stabbed to death. MM Mani also said that CPI (M) had often eliminated political foes and many Congress activists at his place stayed in the Congress party at the mercy of the CPI (M). He had also said that whenever his party had eliminated their political foes they had always proudly accepted it publicly. The hostile body language with which MM Mani was speaking was quite uncharacteristic of a politician. His ludicrous assertions landed him in trouble as his own party disowned his comments, made statements that MM Mani deviated from party line and whatever he said was not party policy. He landed in further trouble as the Police booked him on conspiracy and murder charges. MM Mani’s statements not only embarrassed the CPI (M), but put the party in the defensive in West Bengal, as they are fighting the Trinamool Congress’ violence in that state.
Now that the CPI (M) is in trouble after many of its activists and local committee and area committee members are being arrested in the TP murder case, they are trying to defend the party by taking party supporters to the street. Leaders like Ilamaram Kareem are not mincing any words in his accusation of the Police and Congress government on arresting party activists on TP murder. The party accuse that this is political vendetta by the Congress and the party and its activists have no connection with the murder of TP Chandrashekaran. If that is the case then it would have been wise for the party to challenge the arrests in a court of law and not in the streets as they are doing right now. Only the court would be able to find out and judge who is really behind the killing of TP and since that time it would be stupid to predict who the perpetrator is. However the panic with which the CPI (M) is reacting to this murder case makes it appear that they have something to hide. Therefore it would be wise for the party to take this easy and challenge the case lawfully whenever the case appears in a court of justice, to remove all the doubts from the minds of people of Kerala.
Making a list of political foes and eliminating them one by one is a style of medieval politics and it has no place in modern day political scene. If the statements made by MM Mani that the CPI (M) has always committed that as a party policy is true, then it is a serious crime and people of our country would never pardon the party for that. If the boasting made by MM Mani is found out to be true by the court of law in our country then the party must be banned in the country. However the people of India hope that what MM Mani said in his speech was just a boasting and there is no truth in it as it is very important to have a strong left force in the country to guard against the very serious and dangerous rightward movement of the country in the economic and political spheres of life.
Making a list of political foes and eliminating them one by one is a style of medieval politics and it has no place in modern day political scene. If the statements made by MM Mani that the CPI (M) has always committed that as a party policy is true, then it is a serious crime and people of our country would never pardon the party for that. If the boasting made by MM Mani is found out to be true by the court of law in our country then the party must be banned in the country. However the people of India hope that what MM Mani said in his speech was just a boasting and there is no truth in it as it is very important to have a strong left force in the country to guard against the very serious and dangerous rightward movement of the country in the economic and political spheres of life.
