The lethal country bomb explosion that killed one person and injured at least two others at Panur in Kannur district on Friday has opened a new battlefront between the ruling front and the Opposition in the Vadakara Lok Sabha constituency.
It has also raised the spectre of political violence in the sensitive district and posed questions about the chilling effect the threat of violence could have on the poll process.
The Congress moved quickly to make hay out of the development. Congress candidate from Vadakara, Shafi Parambil, squarely blamed the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] for the blast. He said the deceased and injured persons were CPI(M) workers and slammed the party’s “cult of violence”.
