Amit Shah to launch 'yatra' as BJP eyes opposition space in Kerala

October 02, 2017 16:53

BJP chief Amit Shah will tomorrow launch a 15-day march in Kerala to target the state's CPI-M government with the BJP accusing the Left party of being on a "killing spree" against its workers.

Making the announcement, Union minister Prakash Javadekar today accused the CPI-M of "murder politics", claiming that it had become desperate due to the saffron party's growing popularity and had started state-sponsored violence against its workers.

Shah will kick off the 'jan raksha yatra' (people's protection march) from Payyannur in Kannur, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's home town, and it will wind through the state before ending in Thiruvananthapuram on October 17.

"The CPI-M is desperate and on a killing spree. It is doing murder politics in its desperation and people, including from the CPI-M, are joining the BJP. We will use democratic means to answer its violence," Javadekar told a press conference.

As many as 120 BJP workers, 84 in Kannur alone, have been killed in the state since 2001 with 14 of them in the chief minister's home town since he took the reigns last year, he alleged.

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