CPM activists clash with cops in vadakara

Kozhikode: The CPM is up in arms against police in Vadakara. Removing the posters and banners of political parties in Vallikad on Tuesday triggered the tussle.

Police says all parties agreed to remove their stuff to avoid a possible confrontation, but the CPM reneged on its word.

Police intervention was to avoid a possible dual between CPM and RMP at the place where RMP leader T. P. Chandrasekharan was hacked to death.
While party workers themselves removed a part of RMP's posters and banners, a few were removed allegedly by political opponents at night.

Police reached the spot on Tuesday evening to remove CPM flags and posters as they were still there. But CPM-DYFI workers resisted, and the situation turned violent.

In the melee, the police vehicle was attacked. "Vadakara police station house officer (SHO) destroyed CPM posters with a vengeance. He tore off the poster of the chief minister raining abuses on the CM," alleged CPM Onjiyam area committee in a press statement.

CPM leader T. M. Rajan said the SHO went on a rampage against CPM banners only. The police has taken a case against 30 CPM, DYFI workers in the incident.