Palakkad: The BJP has called for a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the district following the death of a party worker who suffered grievous burns after CPM activists allegedly set his house on fire.
Essential services like newspaper and milk supply and Sabarimala pilgrims have been exempted from the hartal.
Radhakrishnan, 44, of Sreevathsam, Chadayankalayi, succumbed to his injuries on Friday at Jubilee Mission Medical College in Thrissur. The incident was on December 28 at Kanjikode in Palakkad.
Radhakrishnan's brother Kannan, wife Vimala and nephew Adarash had also suffered burn injuries in the attack. All of them are local leaders of the BJP.
The police had arrested three CPM workers in this connection.
The gang had set fire to three bikes kept in a shed near Kannan’s house. The fire spread to the kitchen, causing an LPG cylinder to explode and injuring the victim.
