Author: Arun Lakshman/ Thiruvananthapuram
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: May 5, 2003
The Kerala Government of may have
ignored the warning of the Tamil Nadu intelligence, that the coastal areas
of Kerala are under potential threats by fundamentalist organisations and
the report had even mentioned Kozhikode, Kannur and Nadapuram as the probable
areas.
A copy of the report the Tamil Nadu
Intelligence had given to their Government was send to Kerala CM A K Antony
as there were secret documents pertaining to Kerala also.
The Tamil Nadu agencies had stumbled
upon some diary reports of certain fundamentalist elements, who were arrested
while trying to bomb Coimbatore Press club premises and on probing these
reports the agencies got clear proof of what is in store for the future.
When asked by media persons to comment
on this particular report, the Kerala CM Antony said that there was indeed
a report but he refused to divulge the details.
The Kerala Government either owing
to procrastination or due to pressure from certain powerful lobbies, had
sat upon this report and a heavy price had to be paid.
Among the dead was one Asghar, a
Muslim who hails from a far off place and the police suspects him to be
a member of the gang, which had done the damage and that he may have been
accidentally killed by his own gang members. Till this time there were
no claimants to his body.
The Muslim League Minister Kunhalikutty's
larger than life presence in the Antony cabinet is taking the turn for
the worse as the fundamentalist elements of the NDF who were charged under
criminal cases were allowed to go scot free by the intervention of the
Minister and this single incident has emboldened these elements to once
again take the law into their hands.
The State Organising Secretary of
the Vishwa Hindu Parishad Kummanam Rajashekharan has alleged that Kunhalikutty
had before hand knowledge of the things to come.
The active involvement of Kunhalikutty's
office in pressuring Antony to get the Coimbatore bomb blast accused Abdul
Nasser Madhani released, may be a sign that the Minister is hand in glove
with fundamentalist elements.
In a related incident a contingent
of Opposition CPM leaders led by their State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan
was not allowed to visit the bereaved homes by a violent mob.
