Congress employee and BJP sales space agent allegedly assaulted by CPI(M) activists in Dharmadam and Mattannur constituencies
A Congress employee and a BJP sales space agent had been allegedly attacked in separate incidents in Kannur district on the eve of polling day, with each events accusing CPI(M) activists of orchestrating violence to disrupt the election course of.
The 60-year-old Congress employee was allegedly assaulted close to a polling sales space in Dharmadam constituency on Wednesday night.
The injured has been recognized as Prabhakaran, a resident of Kuzhil Peedika in Keezhathur. The incident occurred close to sales space quantity 70 at Keezhathur UP School.
According to experiences, the assault came about when Prabhakaran was returning after visiting the sales space together with sales space brokers.
He was reportedly intercepted and assaulted by a gaggle of CPI(M) employees.
In a separate incident, BJP sales space agent Manoli Shaiju was injured after being allegedly focused in stone pelting by a CPI(M) group at Maloor panchayat in the Mattannur constituency on Wednesday night
The assault, BJP Kannur South District President and Mattannur candidate Biju Elakkuzgi alleged that the assault was half of a deliberate transfer by the CPI(M) management to sabotage the elections had been being reported from a number of elements of the district because the occasion confronted electoral setback.
He warned that the BJP would strongly resist if such assaults continued and urged the Election Commission and police to take strict motion in opposition to these accountable.
-The Hindu Bureau
