: K.K. Rema, wife of slain Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) leader T.P. Chandrasekharan, has threatened to go on an indefinite hunger strike for a second time in front of the Secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram to press her demand for a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the conspiracy angle in the killing of the RMP leader.
She suspected that Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala had colluded with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) leaders to thwart a CBI probe. The State government had not given its consent till now to the Centre seeking a probe into the conspiracy angle. The BJP-led government at the Centre was in favour of a CBI probe. But the Congress-led UDF appeared to show no interest, Ms. Rema said.
Last year, she had gone on a fast unto death following the verdict of the Special Additional Sessions Court (Marad cases) that acquitted the CPI (M) leaders involved in the conspiracy to kill Chandrasekharan at Onchiyam on May 4, 2012. The trial court had exonerated several CPI(M) leaders, including P. Mohanan (14th accused), member, State committee and district secretary, Kozhikode district. She later called off her five-day-old fast before the Secretariat in February after Chief Minister Oommen Chandy announced that the State government in principle had accepted her demand for a CBI inquiry into the conspiracy angle in Chandrasekharan’s murder.
