BJP chief targets CPI-M over political violence in Kerala

Shah also took a swipe at the Congress, saying the party was “finished” in the country due to alleged corruption and “family rule.” Shah was addressing a massive rally of party workers at the conclusion of the BJP’s 15-day long ‘Jana Raksha Yatra’ here, organised to highlight the ‘Left’s atrocities’ under the CPI(M)-led LDF rule. 

“I am asking Kerala Chief Minister, whether he is prepared to take moral responsiblity for the killing of 13 BJP/RSS workers in the state after the LDF government came to power (in May 2016),” said Shah, who took part in the padayatra for a distance of about two km along with state president Kummanam Rajasekharan. 

“CM, If you want to fight us, let us fight in terms of development and ideology,” he said. “In a short period of time, people of Kerala also will throw away CPI(M) from the state, for its politics of violence,” the BJP chief said. Not sparing the Congress, the main opposition in the state, he said “the party was finished in the country due to corruption and family rule.” 

Slamming Vijayan, Shah asked the Chief Minister whether the mandate given by people was to “eliminate” innocent BJP-RSS workers. The BJP leader assured the families of the victims of attacks, allegedly by the CPI(M), that all the accused would be brought to book and the party would always be with the families. 

Not sparing the Congress leaders in Kerala, Shah said former chief minister Oommen Chandy and some of his colleagues were smeared in “solar scam.”