Murder boast rocks Kerala CPM

Thiruvananthapuram, May 26: An influential Kerala CPM leader has "revealed" that the party had "killed" political opponents in the past, pushing the Marxists on the back foot at a time they are trying to disown the murder of a former rebel.

Ironically, M.M. Mani, the CPM's Idukki district secretary, made his explosive remarks while trying to defend the party against allegations of plotting the killing of T.P. Chandrasekharan, who had left the CPM in 2008 and floated the Revolutionary Marxist Party.

Speaking at a CPM event yesterday, Mani was trying to de-link the party from the May 4 murder in Kozhikode that has led to the arrest of about half a dozen of its leaders and activists.

If the party had had any role in the murder, it would not have been afraid to admit it, Mani bragged. As proof, he reeled off details about three earlier murders of political opponents.

Mani said the CPM had in the past drawn up a list of opponents in his district and, consequently, three Congress activists were killed.

The first, Ancheri Baby ' a worker of Congress labour arm Intuc ' was bumped off in the 1980s; another was hacked to death and the third beaten to death, he said. For good measure, Mani warned that the party would not shy away from neutralising its foes in the future, too, if necessary.

His comments have come as a blow to CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan's efforts to distance the party from the Chandrasekharan murder on the ground that physical annihilation of detractors was not part of party policy.

Congress chief minister Oommen Chandy described Mani's comments as "serious" and said that suitable legal action would be taken. Rubbing it in, he asked Vijayan to react to Mani's claims.

State police chief Jacob Punnoose has asked the district superintendent of police for a report on the contents of Mani's speech. Leaders of the ruling United Democratic Front have demanded that a case be registered against Mani.

The mother of Ancheri Baby, the murdered Intuc activist, too has told a private TV channel that the 1980s killing should be reinvestigated. All the seven people arrested in the case were acquitted for want of evidence.

As for Chandrasekharan's murder, sources claim the investigators have obtained evidence that the plot was hatched at the higher levels of the party.

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