KANNUR: The BJP is planning to conduct a campaign against the CPM atrocities in the district and bring the series of violence in Payyannur to national attention. The national leaders would visit the ‘refugee camp’ at Karayil, Payyannur, in the coming days, where nearly 15 families who lost houses in the violence that started on July 11 are staying. BJP national secretary H. Raja will visit the place on July 16 and Meenakshi Lekhi MP on July 18.
The mothers, who carry young children and stay in the camp for a few days, are afraid to go back, but they can’t stay back in uncertainty. A makeshift camp was set up on the premises of the house of Mr P. Rajesh Kumar, RSS leader. This house was also demolished in the recent violence and the attackers gutted two buses parked in the compound of the house. According to Yuva Morcha Kannur district president K.P. Arun, the police ignored their complaint and there could be violence in the area in connection with the martyr’s day of CPM worker C.V. Dhanaraj.
“The police also ignored the Intelligence wing report regarding the spread of violence. The same houses, mostly of the leaders, destroyed last year, were targeted this year also,” said Mr Arun, whose family is also staying in the camp after their house was attacked. The certificates and books of Sidharth, son of BMS leader Unnikrish-nan and fourth semester BTech student of Vimal Jyothi engineering college, Chemperi, were charred. M. Vidya, who is staying in the camp with her four-year-old son, says that their house was almost demolished with floors destroyed using pickaxe. BJP national executive member P. K. Krishnadas compared the situation to that of the Pandits in Kashmir.
