Oppose CPM fascism in Kerala: Gujarat riot victim's mother urges Qutubuddin Ansari

KANNUR: Even as the CPM celebrates Qutubuddin Ansari, the face of 2002 Gujarat riot victims, as its mascot of secularism and communal harmony, and use him as a weapon for their campaign against Narendra Modi, the mother of Muslim Youth League activist Abdul Shukkoor, who was allegedly killed by the CPM activists two years back at Ariyil in Kannur district, wrote a letter to him, urging him to oppose the CPM fascism in Kerala, too.

Shukkoor's mother P C Aathikka gave the letter to Ansari, when he was here to attend a public meeting organized by the CPM in Thaliparamba on Monday, on the 12th anniversary of the Gujarat riots. She said she was pained to see the CPM leaders who are accused in the murder of her son sharing the stage with him in various functions.

"I too had a son, who got trapped in the hands of the CPM workers. His name was Abdul Shukkoor, who was just 21-year-old. He was trailed by the party court for nearly two and a half hours and even as he begged for his life before them, as you did before the attackers, he was stabbed to death in front of 200-odd people by the party that preaches democracy," she said in the letter. "I was shocked to see P Jayarajan, who is an accused in the case, releasing your autobiography in Malayalam."

The party did not even show the mercy showed by the Sangh Parivar to Ansari, she said in the letter, which also refers to other murders, including the killing of T P Chandrasekahran, committed allegedly by the CPM.

"If your fight against the Sangh Parivar fascism is sincere, you should also fight against the CPM fascism," she says in the letter.

In the CPM-organized function, Ansari shared stage for the first time with Ashok Mochi, the Bajrang Dal activist whose photograph became the icon of the inhuman face of the riots.