THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With factional feud raising its ugly head again in the BJP, at its northern stronghold of Kasargod district, the state unit of the party is again witnessing the washing of dirty linen in the public.Reacting to the state president suspending the Kasargod district committee citing lapses, which led to the defeat of party state general secretary K Surendran at its stronghold Manjeswaram in the Assembly elections, former district president Narayana Bhat’s wife Jayalakshmi Bhat has resigned as president of the Karadukka panchayat in the district on Tuesday.Opening another war front against party national executive member P S Sreedharna Pillai, who has been isolated in the party over the controversy regarding his stand on a CBI inquiry into the Marad massacre, some court documents related to the petition seeking a CBI probe were leaked out to the media in Kozhikode giving the impression that something dubious had happened. The report appeared in the media gives out an impression that Sangh Parivar organisations were not keen on conducting a CBI probe contrary to their public posture. While Sreedharan Pillai termed the reports of his alleged role behind sabotaging the CBI probe a ‘’Himalayan lie,’’ BJP state general secretary K Surendran told mediapersons in Kozhikode that the party always wanted a CBI probe.Speaking to ‘Express,’ Sreedharan Pillai said that the controversy over his stand on the CBI probe was totally uncalled for. ‘’What appeared in the media is damaging the image of the party and Sangh Parivar organisations. The Sangh Parivar leadership as well as the fisherfolk of Marad are well aware of my efforts for a CBI enquiry,’’ he said.He said that it was his efforts which resulted in the court ordering a partial probe on the basis of the recommendations of Justice Thomas Joseph Commission. He said he was being targeted for a case which had not been entrusted with him. However, the RSS, which was on the forefront of the agitations demanding a CBI probe as well as behind bringing normalcy to Marad, is deeply worried about the current upheavals in the BJP. A top leader of the RSS state unit, who does not want to be named, told this paper that a write-up by Hindu Aikyavedi leader M Radhakrishnan which appeared in ‘Kesari’, the RSS mouthpiece, clarifying that Pillai had not been entrusted to hold peace talks with anyone was not aimed at him. He said the factional feuds in Kasargod would further weaken the party’s prospect. A Sangh Parivar ‘baitak’, scheduled to be held in Kochi on August 26 and 27, will discuss the matter in detail and try to take measures to discipline the factions.
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