The Congress has accused the Communist Party of India (Marxist) of brazenly challenging the rule of law by lionising “hardened criminals”.
Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan and Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president K. Sudhakaran said the CPI(M)’s move to honour the memory of two party workers who died in an accidental blast while making a crude bomb at Panur in Kannur in 2015, by erecting a martyr’s column for the dead, cast a chill on civil society.
CPI(M) State secretary M.V. Govindan will inaugurate the memorial to Shaiju and Subesh, the alleged bombmakers, on May 22, according to party posters and banners.
