Thiruvananthapuram, February 22 : The congress and the opposition UDF led by it has decided to step up their agitation demanding a probe by the CBI into the gruesome murder of youth congress activist Shuhaib at Edayannur in Kannur recently.
Congress leader K Sudhakaran, whose indefinite hunger stir in front of the secretariat in Kannur entered the fourth day on Thursday, told reporters that he was determined to carry on with the stir until all the culprits involved in the murder of Shuhaib were nabbed.
A meeting of senior leaders of all UDF constituents held at the venue of Sudhakaran’s hunger stir on Thursday unanimously decided to intensify the agitation across the state demanding a CBI probe into Shuhaib’s murder.
Meanwhile, congress leader and leader of the opposition Ramesh Chennithala handed over to chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan a petition by Shuhaib’s parents seeking a probe by the central agency into the murder of their son by alleged CPI(M) workers.
The petition reportedly alleges the involvement of high-level functionaries of the CPI(M) in plotting Shuhaib’s killing.
The political vendetta harboured by the CPI(M) against Shuhaib and the intolerance that arose out it culminated in the murder of Shuhaib, the petition reportedly says.
Incidentally, CPI(M) leader and minister in the LDF cabinet A K Balan had the other day said at a peace meet convened by him in the wake of Shuhaib’s murder that the LDF government was ready to hand over the probe into the youth congress activist’s murder to whichever agency the opposition requested.
Meanwhile, a revelation on Thursday by the father of Akash, one of the CPI(M) men arrested in connection with the murder, has put the CPI(M) on the defensive.
Alleging that his son was falsely implicated in the murder case, Akash’s father told news channels that his son was in the temple at the time of the murder.
When he informed the CPI(M) of this, the party leaders asked him to prove his son’s innocence in court, he alleged.
