As K.K. Shailaja, MLA, addressed the media in Kozhikode on Tuesday evening soon after the declaration of the candidates’ list of the CPI(M) for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, one of the major questions posed to her was on the impact of the T.P. Chandrasekharan murder case on the elections.
“That case is before the [Kerala High] Court. The court verdict is important in this, and the guilty should be punished. Neither we nor the people of Vadakara want to rake it up during a Parliament election where serious political issues are being discussed. M.V. Govindan, CPI(M) State secretary, has already clarified that the party would abide by the court verdict,” she said.
Political observers, however, feel that her candidature itself is an indication of the CPI(M)’s attempt to wrest the seat, once a Left stronghold, back from the Congress, which has electorally benefited from the former’s alleged involvement in political violence.
