LDF team should have visited RMP leader's house: Viswom

KOZHIKODE: Former Minister and Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Benoy Viswom has said that the delegation of LDF legislators should have visited the house of slain Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) leader T P Chandrasekharan before going to the troubled regions of Onchiyam. He said that merely visiting the trouble spots was “unreasonable and illogical.” The CPI (M)-led delegation's move was not a solution to the political violence ravaging the region. That was why the CPI legislator opted not to accompany the delegation, Viswom, who had earlier represented Nadapuram Assembly constituency, said. (Previously the lone CPI legislator of the district E K Vijayan, representing Nadapuram, had said that the time was not conducive to visit Onchiyam at this juncture as it would not yield the desired effect.)


Viswom also said that Chandrasekharan had a wide network of friends even among his political adversaries. The people were agitated over his death. “He was not killed in a political clash but brutally murdered by a mafia gang — something never heard of in the political history of the state,” he said. Meanwhile PTA Rahim, another LDF-supported MLA, who stayed away from the delegation's programme, said that he had not boycotted the visit.