Modi seeks action against M M Mani

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today slammed Kerala CPM over CPM leader M M Mani’s statement boasting killings of political opponents on the order of the party. Mani in his statement also said that the party will continue to do so.


With Indian Express copy in his hand, Modi Sunday morning in a meeting of Gujarat BJP’s morcha leaders expressed surprise over such an open statement by a political leader of a party that is not in power.


Kerala CPM’s state committee member and Idukki district secretary M M Mani in his address to a party function on Friday said the CPM would kill those who deserve to be killed.


Mani in his speech which is caught on tape boasted, “At Shanthanpara village in Idukki in 1982, the party had prepared a list of 13 persons to be killed after a CPM worker was killed. The first person on the list was shot to death. The second was stabbed to death and the third was beaten to death. By then, worried Congress workers escaped. Then home minister Vayalar Ravi was useless.’’ Mani said Congress worker Balan’s murder was in revenge for the death of local CPM leader Ayyappadas.


Mani further said, “We have a habit of killing and getting killed. So do not try to threaten the CPM. Those who work against the party would be eradicated again. The party does not have any qualms in owning up the murders it had committed,” he said. On Saturday, Mani stuck to what he had said in the public meeting. “It is true that we had killed some persons.”


Reacting to this, Modi in his address to party workers today morning said, “where are the human right organizations? Are they sleeping or what?”


Modi briefed the party workers that as many as 250 RSS workers have been killed in Kerala, the state where there’s not a single elected member of BJP.