HARTAL VIOLENCE- KPCC URGED GOVERNMENT TO TAKE STERN ACTION

HARTAL VIOLENCE- KPCC URGED GOVERNMENT TO TAKE STERN ACTION

KPCC President Ramesh Chennithala Friday,3^rd August,2012, urged the government to take stern action against those involved in the attack on political party offices and public property after arrest of senior CPM leader P Jayarajan in a murder case. Talking to reporters here, Chennithala warned that Congress "will not keep silent" if its party offices were attacked. He alleged that CPM was taking law into their hands by resorting to widespread violence. "People have to evaluate whether it was right on the part of political parties to take law into their hands," he said. Chennithala said, "I would like to remind CPM that if it was choosing the path of violence, then it will have to pay heavy price for it". 

UDF will observe August 9 as 'quit violence' day in Kannur, he said.
Offices of various political parties were attacked in the state in the dawn-to-dusk hartal called by Left parties yesterday to protest arrest of Jayarajan, CPM Kannur district secretary, in connection with the murder of IUML's youth wing activist Abdul Shukkoor at Ariyil in February.

Prof. John Kurakar