Embattled Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] leader P. Jayarajan, who has been under a cloud after he was quizzed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team probing the murder of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) functionary Elamthottaththil Manoj, was discharged from hospital and resumed charge as district secretary of the party on Wednesday.
Mr. Jayarajan’s hospitalisation and his anticipatory bail application that coincided with the CBI team’s switching the investigation to the conspiracy part of the murder case had provoked speculation in political circles that his hospitalisation was to foil his possible arrest in the case.
“Even my hospitalisation at the Pariyaram Medical College Hospital for angioplasty on July 4 and subsequent leave granted by the party was politicised by some parties and a section of the media,” he said at a press conference at the CPI(M) district committee officer here.
Angioplasty was done on him thrice in 2004-2005 at the Amritha Institute of Medical Sciences, he said adding that he was still facing some physical problems as result of brutal attack on him by RSS workers on the Thiruonam day in 1999.
The allegation that he had got hospitalised to escape from law was inhuman, the CPI(M) leader said. Mr. Jayarajan resumed duties as party district secretary five days after his anticipatory bail application was dismissed by the District and Sessions Court.
He told reporters that the RSS and the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) government were ganging up to destroy the CPI(M) by foisting fabricated cases. The CPI(M) being a law-abiding party would respond legally to such attempts. Fabricated cases and repressive measures were not new to the CPI(M), he said declaring that the party would resist them.
The RSS was trying to infiltrate into society by instigating communal feelings, Mr. Jayarajan alleged.
He said the CPI(M) in the district was offering stiff resistance to the Sangh Parivar. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was upbeat about its claim that other parties were facing erosion after the election of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister. Bur Kannur district had witnessed the opposite as the BJP had experienced erosion of its workers to the CPI(M). Mr. Jayarajan declined to take questions from reporters at the press conference. He said he would respond to the questions later.
