In the killing fields of Kannur in northern Kerala, the saga of RSS-CPM political murders took an expected turn with the CBI filing a supplementary chargesheet Thursday accusing a CPM worker for the murder of an RSS leader in 2014.
The chargesheet names CPM senior leader and Kannur district secretary P Jayarajan and five of his associates for the murder of RSS worker E Manoj in September 2014. The CBI had filed the first charge sheet in the case in March 2015, listing 19 people as accused and 200 as witnesses. Jayarajan was arrested then and has been on bail since.
In the supplementary chargesheet filed in a Kochi court, the CBI says political rivalry was the main motive behind the murder. The chargesheet says it was the “need of the hour for the CPM to boost the morale” of its cadre and preventing its from deserting the party which was moving towards the RSS and the BJP was a “serious issue for Jayaraman”. E Manoj was an influential and rising district leader of the BJP.
The CBI says Jayarajan got in touch with a close aide of his, Vikraman who then put together a team of six others. these seven persons then first threw country made bombs at Manoj and later hacked him to death. Jayarajan is a close aide of Kerala Chief Minister P Vijayan who himself hails from Kannur.
The lotus bloomed for the first time in Kerala in the 2016 polls with the BJP winning one seat in Thiruvananthapuram. Coincidentally, Manoj was the main accused in the case pertaining to murder attempt on P Jayarajan in 1999.
Rejecting the charges, CPM leader Brinda Karat told India Today, “Its a politically motivated charge, Jayarajan is the victim of an RSS attack. The CBI is targetting him and carrying out a completely biased probe. The agency has bypassed the state government and the probe is being done completely on the directions of the Centre. The CBI has forgotten its indictment by the courts for political vendetta. The CPM will fight this charge politically”.
In the slugfest of political killings in Kerala, the narrative the RSS has tried to build, with a series of Central leaders making a beeline to Kerala, is that the majority of those killed were from the RSS.
Records show there have been 96 political killings recorded in Kerala since January 1995. Of these, 42 were victims affiliated to the BJP-RSS and 40 were from the CPM. Kannur accounts for just over half of the political killings linked to the rivalry between the CPM and the BJP-RSS in Kerala since 2006 – 41 out of 80.
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