On a day when the CPI(M) started its two-day central committee meeting, activists and leaders of the All India Left Coordination Committee, a platform of various less-known Left parties, including the slain T.P. Chandrashekharan’s RMP, formed a human chain on the Parliament street to condemn the murder.
They later held a meeting at Kerala House here under the banners, “Indraprastha remembers the Gulmohar that was plucked on a May night.”
Apart from the Kerala Left Coordination Committee, CPI (ML) (Liberation), the group consisted of the CPI(M) breakaways such as Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists from the Darjeeling, the CPM (Punjab), which was formed in 2001.
There was also representation from the Lal Nishan Party (Leninist), a Left party based in Maharashtra, which had broken away from the then Communist Party in 1942 after differences with the party’s position on Quit India movement.
“The killing has created widespread resentment and dismay among other Left parties against the CPI (M)”, said Mangal Ram Pasla, Secretary of the CPM (Punjab).
The CPI (ML) (Liberation) central committee member, Kavitha Krishnan, who recently visited TPC’s home, called Onchiam the Nandigram of the Kerala CPI (M).
Congress, BJP leaders seek re-probe
Congress and BJP leaders have demanded a CBI probe into the mu-rder of RSS leader K.T. Jayakrishnan by CPM workers in a classroom on December 1, 1999.
Former BJP state pr-esident P.S. Sreedha-ran Pillai said the government should also order a probe into the killing of other RSS workers in Thalasserry.
He said both UDF and LDF were bound to ex-plain why they had not constituted a re-probe even after the court had flayed the shoddy prosecution.
Congress leader K. Sudhakaran, MP, said the BJP leadership had failed to ensure justice for Jayakrishnan’s family and demanded a CBI probe in the light of revelations by the TPC murder accused, T.K. Rejeesh.