The ruling CPI(M) in Kerala is promoting and facilitating the growth of its student wing SFI as a criminal mafia force in the State, according to Governor Arif Mohammed Khan. Speaking to media after calling on the parents of J S Sidharth, a second year veterinary degree student, who was lynched by SFI leaders of the Kerala Veterinary and Agricultural Science University at Pookkottu in Wayand district, the Governor said that it was a criminal act committed by the SFI with the blatant support of the CPI(M).
Arif Mohammed Khan also asked the political parties in the State to shun violence and stop supporting criminal activities of students.
Sidharth, an apolitical student who was liked by his colleagues in the bathroom of his hostel. Though he was found hanging in the wash room, there were deep wounds and serious injury marks on his body which were inflicted by deadly weapons. The SFI leaders and activists were assaulting him and physically abusing him since 14th February as they found that Sidharth could emerge as a potential threat to their undisputed position as the law makers of the University.
It was on 24th February Sidharth was found dead in his wash room in the hostel building. It took the police seven days to arrest eight students (all SFI leaders) in connection with the unnatural death of Sidharth. According to Sidharth’s parents, some of his colleagues had intimated tha em that Sidharth was executed by the SFI leaders for not kowtowing to their diktats.
“After going through the reports and versions of Sidharth’s colleagues, one cannot be blamed for doubting the syllabus followed by the University. It seems the B V Sc students, who are expected to cure and save animals are taught how to cut people into pieces and how to murder the victims without leaving traces of any foul marks,” said S Jayasankar, Kerala High Court lawyer and the State’s The lead political commentator.
There are allegations that a former CPI(M) MLA is behind the move to save the SFI leaders who were behind the death of Sidharth. Leader of Opposition V D Satheeshan and former Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala accused the CI(M) of other party workers.
It is reported that Sidharth was murdered by SFI activists for his 14th February fusion music dance program along with his colleague, a Muslim girl. The incident comes at a time when the CPI(M) is getting ready for the Lok Sabha poll. Early this week the Kerala High Court upheld the verdict by the trial court in sentencing all the CPI(M) leaders to life imprisonment in the T P Chandrasekharan murder case.
Chandrasekharan was a Marxist leader who came out of the CPI(M) and launched the RPM in protest against the highhanded behavior of some of the bigwigs in the party.