Rajnath Singh dials up Kerala CM, seeks report on BJP office blast
- The BJP is taking the attack on its state office in Kerala capital to the national level to highlight the alleged atrocities against party workers from the CPM
- Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh expressed grave concern over the recurring attack on BJP in Kerala.
- The state BJP leadership alleged that the CPM was behind the bomb attack.
FollowExpressing concern over the bomb attack on the BJP state committee office in the Kerala capital on Wednesday, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh rang up Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and sought a report on the incident from the state government
The recurring attacks on BJP workers in Kerala is a matter of grave concern, Singh told Vijayan.
The intervention by the Central government is part of the BJP’s attempt to take the issue to the national level and to put the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) on the defensive.
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Union Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Wednesday that the bomb attack was aimed at BJP state president Kummanam Rajasekharan. The blast occurred just an hour after Rajashekharan left the office in the wee hours of Wednesday, she pointed out.
The BJP alleged that the attacks on party workers increased manifold after CPM-led LDF government came to power in Kerala. It blamed the CPM for the bomb attack on Wednesday and questioned the silence of Chief Minister in the matter. “Even after two days into the bomb attack on the BJP office, the Chief Minister, who is also holding the Home portfolio, has not uttered a word on that,” BJP state general secretary K Surendran said.
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Meanwhile, the police team investigating the attack is yet to zero in on the culprits. The visuals captured from a CCTV installed near the BJP office showed a person speeding on a motorbike after hurling the crude bomb.
The attack on the state BJP office took place at a time when the long rivalry between the BJP and the CPM reached a peak with violent clashes between the two in the trouble-torn district of Kannur and elsewhere. The latest casualty was a young BJP worker from Thillankery in Kannur, who was hacked to death on Saturday. He was killed within hours after a CPM activist got injured in a bomb attack. Two workers each from the BJP and the CPM lost their lives to political vendetta in Kannur after Pinarayi Vijayan ministry government came to power in May this year.
