Karayi Rajan quits Kannur district panchayat

KANNUR: CPM leader Karayi Rajan  resigned as president of  the Kannur district panchayat  on Saturday.  This was  in the wake of the High Court’s dismissal of the pleas of both Karayi Rajan  and Karayi Chandrasekharan  seeking to lift the curbs on their movement out of Ernakulam district. Karayi Rajan is the eighth accused in the Fasal murder case.

Karayi Chandrasekharan is seventh accused in the case.  Karayi Rajan handed over his resignation  to the district panchayat secretary after attending the CPM district secretariat meeting here in the morning.

“The victims are not getting justice nowadays. None, including the media, is after the culprit,”  Mr Rajan told reporters.  The CPM party meeting was held in the presence of CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan.

Mr Karayi Chandrasekharan, chairman of Thalasserry municipality,  too will resign after the CPM area committee  meeting on February 8. 

The CPM had   fielded  both of them  in the local body polls expecting a favourable ruling from the court.