Shops and business establishments have downed shutters and vehicles are mostly off the roads in Guruvayur and Manaloor towns in Thrissur district following a hartal called by the Bharatiya Janata Party to protest the

killing of an Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh worker at Nenmeni.

     

The 23-year-old RSS worker, Anandan, was hacked to death allegedly by Communist Party of India-United workers yesterday in broad day light.  

    

While the BJP has blamed the CPI-M for the murder, the marxist party in a statement yesterday denied its role in the incident.

     

This is the third murder of BJP/RSS workers in the district since the Pinarayi Vijayan government came to power in May last year, a BJP leader had alleged.

     

Anandan, hailing from Brahmakulam, was an accused in a case relating to the murder of a CPI-M worker in 2013.

     

The funeral is expected to be held this afternoon.

     

The BJP is also observing a protest throughout the state against the gory incident. -- PTI