"Left Front assuming power, there are visible signs of large-scale violence being escalated against BJP workers," the party said to President Pranab Mukherjee in the memorandum.
In the aftermath of the Kerala election results, the hostilities between the Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPI-M) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are taking a fiercer turn.
The BJP has brought the feud between the Marxists and the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) in the state to the capital, with Union minister Nitin Gadkari leading a party delegation to seek President Pranab Mukherjee's intervention in restraining violence and his party cadre protesting at the CPI-M headquarters. Both sides accused each other of initiating violence in the state and gave detailed accounts of attacks on its leaders.
Gadkari, who led a delegation of Union ministers and state leaders, told reporters that they had conveyed to the President the details of attacks on RSS and BJP workers.
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"We have given the President details of these cases, including photographs. Our worker Pramod was killed. Houses of more than 100 workers have been vandalised. The situation is not good. He has assured us that he will take appropriate action. Unfortunately, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and the Congress are keeping quiet. This is not good for democracy," he said.
According to BJP sources, the party's strategy was aimed at "exposing" the CPM as an "anti-democratic" party at the national level.
In the memorandum to the President, the BJP said that with the "Left Front assuming power, there are visible signs of large-scale violence being escalated against BJP workers." It also alleged that several cases against the gruesome violence across the state, particularly in Kannur, Kasargod, Kottayam and Chalakudy, had to be investigated.
While the delegation claimed that there was a general apprehension that the state may witness large-scale organised "crusade" by the LDF government to decimate the growing strength of BJP through violent means, the CPI-M said that the saffron party was not ready to accept the verdict, which had given a clear majority to the Left.
"It's the BJP and the RSS which have initiated violence after the results in the state," CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury said.
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In a statement on Sunday, the CPI-M said that the BJP was levelling false allegations about violence and that its party workers have held a demonstration at the CPI-M office and indulged in vandalism.
"The BJP leadership is adopting a hypocritical and dishonest position about what has actually happened in Kerala. On May 19, when the results were declared, CPI-M workers took out a victory procession in Pinarayi, the constituency of chief minister-designate Pinarayi Vijayan. This procession was attacked by the BJP-RSS workers, resulting in the death of CV Raveendran, a 53-year-old member of the CPI-M. His son Jishen and four others were injured," the statement said, giving an account of attacks on CPI-M workers.
The CPI-M also took exception to Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad's remarks on Saturday saying "instead of issuing threats, the CPI-M should ensure that the party units in Kerala stop such violent attacks." Prasad had said that violence on RSS and BJP workers will not be tolerated.
The CPI-M said that the attacks by the BJP will not be tolerated by the people. Its statement said that, in Kasargode district's Kanhangad constituency, the victory procession of the LDF candidate and sitting CPI MLA E Chandrashekaran was attacked by BJP workers, and, the same day, a bomb was hurled at a CPI-M rally in Mattanoor, Kannur, where four people were injured.
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