Over 120 BJP-RSS workers killed since Communists came to power: Amit Shah

BJP president Amit Shah on Sunday launched a rally in New Delhi against the CPI(M) alleged targeting of party workers in Kerala, saying Communists are "politically violent by nature" and that the bodies of "our workers were chopped into pieces to instill fear".

Addressing the rally, Shah said the Communist Party should be ashamed of the murders that took place in the Chief Minister's area. "Life can be taken with a bullet, but bodies of our workers were chopped to pieces to instill fear. But we aren't scared of sacrifice," he said claiming that over 120 BJP-RSS workers were killed since Communists came to power in Kerala.

Shah trained his guns on the Congress, too, saying just as Communists had finished around the world, the Congress was finished in India.

The BJP president took up the cudgels against the human rights activists, questioning why they weren't protesting "political murders" in Kerala. "Their selective protest exposes them. Why don't they carry out a candle march against their fellow Red comrades?"

He attacked Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan for his failure to control political violence in his state. "He should be ashamed of himself. The maximum number of killings have occurred under his nose, within his own district."

Earlier this week, Shah had kicked off the Jan Raksha Yatra (people's protection march) from Payyannur in Kerala. According to the party, he skipped the march in Pinarayi -- the hometown of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan -- as he had to attend a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Shah is expected to join the BJP workers in Thiruvananthapuram, where BJP-RSS workers currently on the march in different parts of the state will come together, on the last day of the "Raksha Yatra".

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