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The memorial of U.K Kunhiraman, a CPI(M) activistic who was killed portion guarding a mosque during the Thalassery riots, was vandalised precocious connected Tuesday night. The incidental occurred astir midnight astatine Neerveli, successful the Koothuparamba constabulary limits successful Kannur, Kerala.
The memorial was desecrated by pouring achromatic lipid implicit it, and a adjacent flagpole was uprooted. The site, located successful Neerveli, an country considered a CPI(M) stronghold, holds governmental and humanities value successful Kannur.
The Koothuparamba constabulary registered a lawsuit against 5 RSS workers, including Sreyas Raj, Roji, Pramod, Mahesh and Raju, nether the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Sections 189(2), 191(2), 191(2), 329(3), 324(4) and 190.
U.K. Kunhiraman was a subordinate of the CPI(M) Mangattidam section committee and is remembered by the enactment arsenic a martyr who was killed by RSS workers connected January 4, 1972, portion guarding the Meruvambayi mosque during the Thalassery riots. However, rival governmental groups, including the RSS and immoderate Congress leaders, contention this version, claiming that Kunhiraman was killed successful a brawl astatine a toddy store days aft the riots ended, an incidental not recorded among the riot-related cases.
The Thalassery riots, which broke retired successful December 1971, polarised the Malabar portion and intensified governmental rivalry betwixt the CPI(M) and the RSS. The communicative of Kunhiraman’s decease remains a recurring taxable successful Kannur’s governmental discourse.
