There was an attempt on the life of A P Abdullakutty, national vice -president of the BJP late Thursday evening at Malappuram. A heavy duty truck crashed twice against the car in which Abdullakutty was travelling.
Though he escaped unhurt, the incident has brought back memories of violent clashes involving the Sangh Parivar activists and Marxists in Northern Kerala which had claimed the lives of hundreds of workers over the last two decades.
According to Abdullakutty, he was travelling from Thiruvananthapuram to Kannur by road when the incident occurred. He had stopped in front of wayside eatery to have his dinner when a group of people approached him and had verbal altercations over his joining the BJP. K Surendran, BJP's Kerala president demanded a thorough probe into the incident.
Though the BJP leader came out of the hotel without speaking to the group and drove away, a Taurus truck was seen following him and crashed against his car twice causing many dents on the rear. When he stopped the car and got down, the truck sped away.
The incident happens within days of Abdullakutty releasing the book Deseeya Muslim (Nationalist Muslim), a collection of essays listing the story of his life and how he ended up with the Sangh Parivar. Abdullakutty has recounted an incident that took place in the CPI(M) head quarters in Kerala in 2009 when Pinarayi Vijayan was the party general secretary.
P Satheedevi, MP, told Vijayan that the CPI(M) members were shocked when the BJP members of parliament had come to the House with flex boards featuring the pictures of the dead bodies of RSS and BJP workers in Kerala who were murdered in gruesome manner by the Marxists. “We were left speechless by these pictures. Something should be done to stop this,” Satheedevi requested Vijayan.