Amit Shah faults CM Pinarayi Vijayan for killings

PAYYANNUR (KANNUR): BJP national president Amit Shah has held chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan responsible for the political killings in Kerala and asserted that the attacks would not prevent the  saffron party from bouncing back with added vigour.  He was  inaugurating the BJP-led Janaraksha Yatra against ‘Red terror andJihad’ at Payyannur,  the red citadel in the district on Tuesday.   “As many as 13 BJP workers were killed after the Pinarayi Vijayan-led government came to power. The yatra is the organised protest of all BJP workers in the country. It will make each citizen of Kerala aware of the  politics of murder being practised by the CPM,” Mr Shah said.

He warned that the CPM would be exposed at the national level and that the BJP workers would take out a protest rally to the CPM office in New Delhi. Satyagrahas will be staged in all state capitals from Wednesday  to October 17. “Political atrocities are   common in West Bengal, which was once ruled by the CPM, and in Tripura. Whenever LDF comes to power in Kerala, it is a field day for the attackers. More than 120 BJP/RSS men have lost their lives in the state. Of that, 84 persons are from the Kerala CM’s district. Pinarayi Vijayan is responsible for these killings,” Mr  Shah said. In the evening, Mr  Shah  walked along with the yatra up to Pilathara and will join it again on October 5 at Pinarayi, the home-constituency of Mr Pinarayi Vijayan where the undivided Communist party’s first meeting was held in 1939.