{"id":16441,"date":"2012-05-27T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T22:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?p=16441"},"modified":"2012-05-27T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T22:10:10","slug":"kerala-communist-leader-admits-we-kill-our-political-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2012\/05\/kerala-communist-leader-admits-we-kill-our-political-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala Communist Leader admits &#8211; We Kill Our Political Opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_16442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16442\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16442\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.patheos.com.S3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/sites\/356\/Mani-CPM-300x213.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CPM's Idukki district secretary MM Mani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>In a rather damning case, a senior functionary of the Kerala CPM \u2013 MM Mani, has said that CPM has regularly killed its political opponents.\u00a0 He has talked of 13.\u00a0 Just recently a CPM rebel and RMP leader TP Chandrasekharan was murdered and CPM activists have been arrested in that case.<\/p>\n<p>Narendra Modi, Gujarat\u2019s Chief Minister, has rightly suggested that this is a serious revelation.\u00a0 The RSS and the Hindu activists have time and again talked of persecution at the hand of the communists, not just in Kerala but in other states as well.\u00a0 He says that over 250 RSS workers have been killed by the communists.\u00a0 It is time that people start speaking up. I completely agree.<\/p>\n<p>If these people \u2013 communists and the pseudo-seculars \u2013 who feign to stand for justice and peace think its kosher to go around persecuting others who don\u2019t agree with their ideology, then they have to pay for their transgression of law.<\/p>\n<p>When asked, the State CPM Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan said that Mani\u2019s statements were \u201cdeviation from the party\u2019s stance\u201d!\u00a0 Heck YES, it was.\u00a0 Because, the party\u2019s stance has been to tell lies all along!<\/p>\n<p>And to good measure Vijayan announced that such things should not be repeated.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, no one in the media is holding the ridiculous \u201cexplanation\u201d of the Party Secretary against Mani and CPM itself.\u00a0 To me, he doesn\u2019t say anything substantive about the case itself.\u00a0 He talks about how there was a communication failure.\u00a0 The issue is larger than just semantics.\u00a0 It is larger than one man boasting and being \u201cout of party line\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It is about how the Communists conduct their politics.\u00a0 And in many ways, how the media works to cover up their tracks.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rather damning case, a senior functionary of the Kerala CPM \u2013 MM Mani, has said that CPM has regularly killed its political opponents.\u00a0 He has talked of 13.\u00a0 Just recently a CPM rebel and RMP leader TP Chandrasekharan was murdered and CPM activists have been arrested in that case. 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