‘Arrested Cong activists have no role in SFI worker’s murder’

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee chief K Sudhakaran on Saturday continued to criticise the ruling CPM over the recent killing of Dheeraj Rajendran, an activist of its student wing SFI, and claimed that the arrested Youth Congress activists have no connection with the incident.

Alleging that the 21-yearold youth was a victim of the Marxist party’s “violent politics”, the Kannur MP said even witnesses did not say that the arrested YC activists had stabbed him.

Playing a purported voice clip of some students, who are said to have witnessed the incident that happened at the Government Engineering College in Idukki last week, he told reporters here that none of them said who had stabbed the deceased man. How could the responsibility of the crime be attributed to the YC activists, he asked.

Sudhakaran claimed that the Kerala Students Union (KSU) and YC activists did not go after anyone to attack them and asked why the police were reluctant to rush the injured Rajendran to hospital.

Taking a dig at the ruling party, the Kannur strongman also said the CPM also did not mind organising a mega ‘thiruvathirakkali’, a traditional group dance, while mourning the student activist’s death. —(PTI)