Let’s fight on development and ideology: Shah’s challenge to CPI-M

TIL Desk/National/Thiruvananthapuram/ Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah on Tuesday hit out at Kerala’s Communist Party of India Marxist-led Left Democratic Front government over the political violence in the state, asking Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan if he was prepared to take moral responsiblity for the “killing of 13 innocent BJP/RSS workers.”

Shah also took a swipe at the Congress, saying the party was “finished” in the country due to alleged corruption and “family rule.”Shah was addressing a massive rally of party workers at the conclusion of the BJP’s 15-day long ‘Jana Raksha Yatra’ in Thiruvananthapuram, organised to highlight the ‘Left’s atrocities’ under the CPIM-led LDF rule.

“I am asking Kerala chief minister, whether he is prepared to take moral responsiblity for the killing of 13 BJP/RSS workers in the state after the LDF government came to power (in May 2016),” said Shah, who took part in the padayatra for a distance of about 2 km along with state president Kummanam Rajasekharan.”CM saheb, If you want to fight us, let us fight in terms of development and ideology,” he said.”In a short period of time, people of Kerala also will throw away CPI-M from the state, for its politics of violence,” the BJP chief said.