For the last
three weeks the print and visual media in Kerala depend on the same story. They
depute special journalists’ team to cover the news. News papers giving special pages
and channels give special slots everyday apart from the lead story. Do not
confuse, the media in Kerala is sensitive on price rise the petrol price hike
or corruption or farmers suicide in the state or on the CAG reports on Coal
Gate which leaves behind 2G spectrum scam or the land allotment of Indira
Gandhi International Air port in New Delhi. These issues are not at all
bothering them. For the mainstream media in Kerala, a tragic killing of T P
Chandrasekharan is foremost in their agenda to wage an all out attack on CPI
(M) and left movement.
Disregarding
the denial of CPI (M) on the involvement in the Killing, the media is holding a
parallel trial to manipulate the public opinion against the party. Though the
CPI (M) General Secretary Prakash Karat and State Secretary Pinaryi Vijayan has
already stated that it is not the policy of Party to dispose off physically
those who have disagreement and party has not endeavored to murder anyone who
had left the party for political organizational reasons. But the media taking
an active participation in the combing operation to hunt the CPI (M) workers in
this case is driving public conscience against the party. The Police officers
who are notoriously known for their allegiance to the Congress are continuously
leaking the stories on interrogation and the media publishes it as the
confessional statements of arrested CPI (M) workers.
Prior to the
arrests, the media announces some names of the persons mostly have the CPI (M)
background to create an ambience to the police actions. So far a series of arrests
have been made by the police. Those who were arrested by the police were
terribly tortured. Even third degree torture measures were carried out by the
police. CPI (M) Onchiyam Area Secretary and Non Gazetted officers association’s
former General Secretary C H Asokan and various Area Committee members are under
police custody. They were even denied medicines.
A dubious
and unholy nexus between Police and right wing media and their nefarious design
to malign CPI (M) reached its peak in these days. First, the media predicts
some names then police make arrests in the back drop of huge media reports. The
same media is expert in maintain a selective amnesia on the attack on the
houses of CPI (M) workers and party offices in Onchiyam area. Miscreants from
Congerss, Muslim League along with Revolutionary Marxist Party workers are
unleashed attack on CPI (M) workers in keeping Policemen as mere spectators.
CPI (M)
district committee had organized massive protests to the Police Superintend’s
office in Vadakara, where brutal torture happening. Thousands of Party workers
attended the marches.
District
Committee also decided to file a writ in High Court against the parallel media
trial which is considered as contempt of court. District Secretary T P
Ramkrishnan will file the writ citing the bogus reports on interrogation and
leaking of news by the police as contempt. According to a verdict of High court
dated December 22, 2010, making reports out of confessional statement is contempt
of court. Police should confine to submit the details interrogation only in the
court. Leaking of the details is punishable according the verdict.
