With some of itsfunctionaries under the scanner, CPI(M) in Kerala todayaccused the Congress-led UDF Government of plotting to framesenior party leaders in connection with the murder of Marxistrebel and RMP leader T P Chandrasekharan.
The party state secretariat alleged that senior leaders ofthe state were involved in this "heinous conspiracy."
The investigation in the case was progressing inaccordance with the "script" prepared by the government withthe motive of maligning the CPI(M), a party statement said.
The party functionaries arrested in the case were beingtortured by the police and baseless stories planted in mediadressing them up as details gathered during the interrogation,it alleged.
"The fallout of this deplorable move would be serious aspeople in the state would not tolerate such attempts as theywould come forward to defend the party which has grown bythwarting such conspiracies over the decades," it said.
Several CPI(M) activists, including a prominent districtlevel leader, have been taken into custody in connection withthe investigation in the Chandrasekharan murder case.
A former CPI(M) activist from Onjiyam in Kozhikodedistrict, Chandrasekharan left the party in 2008 and floatedthe Revolutionary Marxist Party. He was murdered on May 4.
A senior CPI(M) leader from Kannur district was questionedby police yesterday as part of probe into another politicalmurder case.
CPI-M's embarrassment has been made much worse after oneof its senior functionaries M M Mani made a startling claimthat the party had drawn up a list of its political foes tobe eliminated in the 1980s and that three had been done awaywith.