From being ‘God’s Own Country’, Kerala has transformed into the God’s “forsaken” country, BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi said in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, coming down hard on the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in the State for “failing” to contain the killing of RSS and BJP workers.
Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Lekhi alleged that political opponents were being killed in “Talibani style” in the State and that even workers of the Congress, the CPI and the Muslim League were being targeted.
Another BJP MP Prahlad Joshi said 17 BJP and RSS workers were killed in Kerala in the last 17 months and demanded a probe into the deaths by either the CBI or the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Comments by Joshi and Lekhi drew sharp reaction from the MPs of the Left parties who countered them vociferously.
She also read out names of 14 BJP and RSS workers who were allegedly killed in Kerala in the last few months and wondered whether anyone in the House knew their names.
“People will immediately connect if someone talks about Pehlu Khan or Akhlaq. But nobody knows about the people killed in Kerala,” Lekhi said.
In a hard-hitting attack on the Left government, Lekhi also alleged that seven children from the families of RSS and BJP workers were targeted.
“One, Rajesh, had received 80 wounds. His hands were chopped off. People are being killed in Talibani style. A total of 40 Congress workers were alone killed in Kannur,” she claimed.