In an effort to protest against the alleged killings of BJP-RSS party workers in Kerala, BJP President Amit Shah launched the Jan Raksha Movement in Kerala on Tuesday.
Blaming the communist state government for the killings, Shah claimed that more than 120 BJP workers have been murdered in the state, which includes 85 people who were murdered in the hometown of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Kannur. For the same reason, Kannur was chosen as the starting point of the movement which will be carried out as padyatras across the nation.
Whenever Kerala gets a Communist, left alliance government, violence starts. Till now, more than 120 BJP and RSS workers have been murdered.Amit Shah, BJP President
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath also decided to visit Kannur on Wednesday to add fuel to the movement.
Both Shah and Yogi Adityanath claimed that by killing BJP workers, the ruling left alliance government was trying to curb democracy and hence encouraging red jihadist terror in the state.
The killings of BJP party workers, our ideological partners, prove the fact that the government here is shamelessly trying to encourage violence and creating an environment of jihadi terror.Yogi Adityanath, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Amit Shah also called out human rights activists and claimed that they were guilty of opposing selective intolerance in the nation.
Violence has no colour. The belief that red coloured violence is not violence must be taken out of our heads. Violence is violence, no matter who inflicts it.Amit Shah, BJP President
In response to the yatra, CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury claimed that BJP blaming the Kerala government for inflicting violence is like a pot calling the kettle black.
Yechury in turn blamed BJP for starting and continuing the violence in Kerala and called the yatra a planned movement to increase their vote bank in Kerala, a technique that he claimed was extensively used by the BJP-RSS factions since inception.
Every single inquiry instituted to inquire into communal riots in India has indicted the RSS and its political arm, earlier the Jana Sangh and now the BJP as being singularly responsible for sparking these riots and violence.Sitaram Yechury, CPI (M) Leader
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