Kerala sources have stated that after a short break, political violence has returned to Kannur as a CPIM and a BJP worker were hacked to death in separate incident in the district and Sanjay Guruddin, Superintendent of Police has told 36 year old C.V. Dhanaraj, a CPIM worker was hacked to death by an unidentified gang at his home Kunnaru village, near Payyannur at 10 pm.
It is stated that the armed gang has attacked Dhanaraj before his family members and he has died on the way to hospital and two hours later C.K. Ramachandran, an auto driver and RSS worker was also stabbed to death by another gang at his home in Annur village and the assailants have hurled crude bombs before stabbing Ramachandran.
The CPIM Kannur District Secretary M.V. Jayarajan has told India Today that RSS has engineered political violence as part of conspiracy and the RSS leaders are instigating the cadres for violence and supporting their acts.
Meanwhile the State Intelligence has reported earlier that tension between RSS and CPIM scaling up in many parts of the district and the police have deployed Rapid Action Force in several places in the district and the CPIM has announced hartal from dawn to dusk in Payyannur today.
