UDF holds prayer meet for peace restoration

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala on Monday alleged that the CPM and BJP were helping each other by unleashing violence on people to divert attention from allegations of corruption and administrative disaster. He was inaugurating the 'secular prayer meet' organised by the United Democratic Front (UDF) at the Congress party headquarters here, with the slogan "CPM and BJP should stop murder politics, let peace prevail in the state". He said the duo are of the same flock in the game of murder politics. The chief minister sends his party cadres to kill and then initiates peace talks.

"The closed door talks was a sham. He had thrown out the media. If BJP president Kummanam Rajasekharan and CPM secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan decides, there'll be no revenge killings," he said. "It's for the first time in the history of the state that a Governor summons the CM over law and order collapse." KPCC president M. M. Hassan said the love for violence and intolerance were leading the two and they had made the state capital their killing fields. In the last 14 months, he said, there were 17 political murders. Former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said it was unfortunate that Mr Balakrishnan ridiculed fasting of Mr Chennithala in Kozhikode against violence.