Now, UDF organises meet to honour martyrs
The UDF is roping in slain RMPI leader T P Chandrasekharan's widow K K Rema to highlight the issue of political violence.
The UDF is roping in slain RMPI leader T P Chandrasekharan's widow K K Rema to highlight the issue of political violence.
The UDF is roping in slain RMPI leader T P Chandrasekharan's widow K K Rema to highlight the issue of political violence.
Kozhikode: A day after the Left Democratic Front (LDF) organised a meeting to honour martyrs, the United Democratic Front (UDF) is holding a similar event at the same venue, in a bid to put the focus back on political violence.
The Vadakara Samskarika Vedi is holding the event 'Irakal Samsarikkunu' (Victims Speak) at Kottapparamba Maidan on Saturday evening, as a mark of protest against political violence.
CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan honoured the family members of slain party activists at an event on Friday.
At the venue in Vadakara, where P Jayarajan is facing a tough contest against K Muraleedharan, the party had put up photographs of slain party workers, starting from Abu and Chathukkutty killed in Thalassery police firing in 1940 to Shibin who was a victim of a political murder in Thuneri in 2015.
The UDF event is an apparent attempt to counter this.
The UDF is roping in slain RMPI leader TP Chandrasekharan's widow K K Rema to highlight the issue of political violence.
The kin of slain Youth Congress (YC) workers Sharathlal and Kripesh of Periya, including their parents, would also attend the meeting.
Muhammed, father of another slain YC leader SP Shuhaib and Dawood, brother of MSF worker Ariyil Shukkoor, who was also murdered, too will attend the event.
The organisers say the event is aimed at exposing the violent politics of the CPM.
To add colour to the event, the Yuvajana Vadya Kalasangham, a collective associated with Kripesh and Sharathlal, would also perform.
After the murder of Sharathlal and Kripesh on February 17, the Yuvajana Vadya Kalasangham has performed in various places in Kasaragod and Kannur constituencies.
When the CPM honoured nearly 300 family members of murdered party workers, its aim was to thwart the attempts of political rivals to portray LDF candidate P Jayarajan as a votary of murder politics.
The UDF has widely distributed leaflets, describing the CPM as well as Jayarajan as votaries of political violence. This had reportedly struck a chord, especially in family gatherings.