The decease by suspected termination of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) municipal councillor K. Anil Kumar astatine his bureau astatine Thirumala successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Saturday (September 20, 3035) appeared to person snowballed into a contention aft persons suspected to beryllium enactment activists attacked journalists who reached the spot to screen the incident.
Mr. Kumar’s decease besides appeared to enactment the BJP territory portion connected the antiaircraft aft immoderate quarters adjacent to him attempted to nexus it to the “debt caused by fiscal mismanagement” astatine a cooperative nine headed by the councillor.
The constabulary person shifted the assemblage to the Thiruvananthapuram Government Medical College Hospital mortuary for a post-mortem examination.
Meanwhile, immoderate quality outlets, quoting anonymous sources, broadcast that the constabulary had recovered a termination enactment incriminating respective BJP leaders successful Thiruvananthapuram successful Mr. Kumar’s death.
A conception of BJP workers who congregated extracurricular Mr. Kumar’s bureau protested against the quality study and mobbed journalists covering the development. In the ensuing fracas, respective journalists, including women, sustained insignificant injuries and harm to equipment, including cameras.
Pradeep Kumar, a elder lensman moving for the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] mouthpiece Deshabhimani, termed the onslaught “unprovoked.”
The Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) has condemned the onslaught connected mediapersons. It has besides decided to petition the constabulary to probe the assault.
Party to probe attack: V.V. Rajesh
Meanwhile, BJP territory president V.V. Rajesh said the enactment would analyse the onslaught connected mediapersons astatine Thirumala.
He claimed that Mr. Kumar had exhibited signs of slump for the past fewer days. “Some fiscal issues regarding borrowers defaulting connected indebtedness repayments had distressed Mr. Anil Kumar”, helium said.
Mr. Rajesh said the BJP had nary relation successful the moving of the cooperative fiscal institution.
Meanwhile, the CPI(M) has sought to equate Mr. Kumar’s decease with the suspected termination of the District Congress Committee treasurer, Wayanad, N.M. Vijayan.
The seasoned Congress leader’s household had linked Vijayan’s decease to a cooperative slope employment scam involving elder Congress leaders successful the district.
They alleged that Vijayan had incurred an tremendous debt, estimated astatine ₹2.21 crore, aft mortgaging his spot to repay sums allegedly collected by Congress leaders, who had promised jobs successful a party-controlled section cooperative bank.
Vijayan’s daughter-in-law, Padmaja, had called connected Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan past week and demanded an enquiry into the death. She accused the Congress of abandoning her family.
On Saturday, she threatened to signifier an indefinite sit-in protestation successful beforehand of the KPCC State headquarters, Indira Bhavan, successful Thiruvananthapuram, if the enactment enactment did not honour its committedness to Vijayan.
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