The BJP in Kerala, struggling to get roots in the State, has been described by political opponents as well as commentators as an entity with many groups and subgroups. The divisions within the Hindutwa brigade in the State came out in the open as party’s Kerala president K Surendran demanded a probe by the Kerala Police into reports about narcotics trafficking allegedly with patronage from political leaders.
The last two days Kerala was agog with reports about the involvement of Bineesh Kodiyeri, son of CPI(M) secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan in the narcotics trade and distribution happening in Kochi and suburbs. Mohammed Anoop, a narcotics dealer who was arrested recently by the Narcotics Control Bureau from Bangalore had confessed about his dealings with Bineesh Kodiyeri.
Surendran, while speaking to reporters at Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday demanded that the State Police should probe into the narcotics trade happening all over Kerala in which the names of many film personalities have figured. The demand comes at a time when other BJP leaders in the State express their lack of trust in the Kerala Police, which they accuse as the handmaiden of the CPI(M). On Saturday, BJP’s National Executive member P Krishnadas, said that the steel bomb blast which took place at a CPI(M) village in Kannur should be probed by the central agencies. Three CPI(M) activists were seriously injured when the steel bomb they were assembling went off accidentally on Thursday
“The State Police has lost its credibility and has become a weapon in the hands of the CPI(M) and the latter is attacking political rivals with the police,” said Krishnadas. Surendran and Krishnadas do not see eye to eye on any issues and belong to opposite camps in the BJP.