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RMP MLA Rema challenges CPI(M) over Chandrasekharan murder admission
K K Rema is a politician from the Revolutionary Marxist Party.
Her husband, T P Chandrasekharan, used to belong to the CPI(M).
He left that party and created the Revolutionary Marxist Party.
In 2012, he was attacked and killed while riding home on a motorcycle.
Rema says CPI(M) supporters were responsible.
She asked CPI(M) leaders to admit that the killing was a serious mistake.
She made the request while the party was reviewing its election defeat and other mistakes.
Rema later entered politics and won an election with support from the United Democratic Front.
RMP MLA K K Rema asked the CPI(M) to admit what she called the “unrectifiable mistake” of T P Chandrasekharan’s murder.
Chandrasekharan, a former CPI(M) leader, left the party and formed the Revolutionary Marxist Party.
He was hacked to death by CPI(M) supporters while returning home on his motorcycle in 2012.
Rema made the demand as the CPI(M) held a three-day extended state committee meeting in Kozhikode.
Rema alleged that CPI(M) leaders conspired to kill Chandrasekharan over his political opposition to the party leadership.
- Who
- RMP MLA K K Rema and CPI(M) leaders; the dispute concerns the murder of former CPI(M) leader T P Chandrasekharan.
- What
- Rema asked the CPI(M) to acknowledge what she called the “unrectifiable mistake” of Chandrasekharan’s murder.
- Where
- Kozhikode district, Kerala; the CPI(M) meeting was held in Kozhikode.
- When
- Sunday, September 13; Chandrasekharan was killed in 2012.
- Why
- Rema made the demand as the CPI(M) reviewed its assembly election defeat and political and organisational mistakes.
Key facts
- Victim
- T P Chandrasekharan, a former CPI(M) leader
- Year of murder
- 2012
- Political party formed
- Revolutionary Marxist Party
- Speaker
- RMP MLA K K Rema
- CPI(M) meeting
- A three-day extended state committee meeting in Kozhikode
- Election constituency
- Vadakara
- Election support
- Rema won with support from the United Democratic Front
Quotes
K K Rema
RMP MLA and widow of former CPI(M) leader T P Chandrasekharan
“Do you have the political honesty to at least now admit before the people of Keralam the unrectifiable mistake of the brutal murder of T P Chandrasekharan?”
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