Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: Two workers of RSS were killed while making bombs on November 10 in northern Kerala district of Kannur while two others were seriously injured
The persons killed have been identified by the police as Pradeep and Dileep, village-level leaders of RSS.
“They were making bombs in a hilly secluded area in the district. The explosion was so heavy that it was heard in five km area” Ahmad Sharif, Resident Editor of the Malyalam daily Thejas, told TwoCircles.net.
So massive was the impact of the explosion that the body of one of them was thrown into a well nearby; it is said that two persons have been injured in the incident also, Sharif said giving details of the incident from Calicut.
Pradeep, who is one of the dead, was also an accused in a controversial bomb blast in September 2000 in Kannur in the middle of local elections and the judgment in that case was likely to come on coming Friday, Sharif said.
In a similar incident in Kanpur on August 24 this year two Bajrang Dal activists were killed. They were also making bombs in a hostel room. The police had seized huge amount of explosives from the site of the blast.
But people in Kannur are not taking yesterday’s blast seriously and not in the context of the blasts that have taken place in North India – particularly Nanded, Kanpur or Malegaon.
Asked about the latest development on the probe into yesterday’s blast in Kannur, Sharif said: “It’s a normal happening in the area. Nothing will happen.” He sees it in the perspective of the ongoing violent clashes between RSS and CPM.
“There have been clashes between CPM and RSS, lot of people from both sides have been killed in those clashes. There is a rivalry between RSS and CPM for the last two decades in the district” Sharif said adding that each of them want to extend their control on villages.
CPM workers do not allow people from RSS to enter in villages where they have dominance and the same is true with workers of the RSS, he said. Rivalry started when some CPM workers were persuaded by RSS to join their organization, he added.
Kannur has been in the news for the last couple of weeks for two encounters in Jammu and Kashmir wherein two persons from this Kerala district were killed. The police have also arrested some persons from the district for their alleged connection with those Keralite Muslims killed in the Kashmir encounter.
That incident, however, has been seen as spreading network of Kashmiri terrorists in India. It is yet to be seen if in the garb of local CPM-RSS rivalry people from the Hindutva organization were planning to execute blasts in South to sabotage communal harmony and malign local Muslims as it happened in Malegaon and Modasa this past Ramazan.