CPI(M) alleges plot to ignite trouble

By Our Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, APRIL 6. The CPI(M) State secretary, Mr. Pinarayi Vijayan, has alleged that a conspiracy is being hatched by the UDF and the BJP-RSS combine to foment trouble in the State on election-eve.

Mr. Vijayan told a press conference here today that the violence in Kannur on Thursday was the result of this conspiracy and accused the Kannur SP of having become a pawn in the hands of the UDF-BJP combine. The conspiracy was to create the impression that law and order in the State had collapsed and that polling would not be peaceful in the State, he said.

Coming down heavily on the Kannur SP, Mr. Vijayan alleged that the SP had launched an indiscriminate attack and firing on the peace-loving people in the locality. One of the bullets scraped past a woman who was standing in front of her home and hit the wall. The police had opened fire even as people were running helter-skelter following a lathicharge. The LDF Government, completing five years in office, had come very close to being accused of having shot a housewife dead, he pointed out.

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