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In an effort to protest against the alleged killings of BJP-RSS party workers in Kerala, BJP President Amit Shah launched the Jan Raksha Movement in Kerala on Tuesday.
Blaming the communist state government for the killings, Shah claimed that more than 120 BJP workers have been murdered in the state, which includes 85 people who were murdered in the hometown of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Kannur. For the same reason, Kannur was chosen as the starting point of the movement which will be carried out as padyatras across the nation.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath also decided to visit Kannur on Wednesday to add fuel to the movement.
Both Shah and Yogi Adityanath claimed that by killing BJP workers, the ruling left alliance government was trying to curb democracy and hence encouraging red jihadist terror in the state.
Amit Shah also called out human rights activists and claimed that they were guilty of opposing selective intolerance in the nation.
In response to the yatra, CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury claimed that BJP blaming the Kerala government for inflicting violence is like a pot calling the kettle black.
Yechury in turn blamed BJP for starting and continuing the violence in Kerala and called the yatra a planned movement to increase their vote bank in Kerala, a technique that he claimed was extensively used by the BJP-RSS factions since inception.
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