The selective amnesia of the media in Kerala is a hot subject in alter media and social web sites. The right wing media which puts its weight on one and only subject of Chandrasekharan’s murder and further witch hunt of CPI (M) cadres never bothered other serious issues. The social websites like face book and twitter is became a hotbed of such sharp media criticism. Irrational approach of a section media which eulogize the UDF bosses for their attempt nab the CPI (M) leaders in a Chandrasekharan murder case and their unfriendly attitude towards the serious issues like price rise or criminalization of society or failure of law and order are being severely criticized by the social websites.
Front pages of few news papers on the day of March 26, which happened to be the anniversary of declaration of Political Emergency in India by Indira Gandhi, carried two shocking news from Thiruvananthapuram. The first was a murder of nineteen year old girl in broad day light and the second was an overnight destruction of a home by local Congress leaders in Aryanad a small hamlet in Thruvananthapuram. Another incident was taken place in the same night in the neighboring district Kollam, where a police constable was brutally killed by some unidentified assailants.
Thought the three incidents are the utter failure of law and the major media in the state keeping a blind eye on it. Frightening murder of Liji (19) was the taken place in Varkala, a place which attracts thousands of foreign and domestic tourists every year. Liji, a sale girl in a fancy store was hit by a motor cycle rode an eve teaser in the evening. Before hitting the bike the assailant tried to molest Liji and she took shelter in a house nearby. Assuming the assailant had gone, she left that home walked in direction of her own home. But worst thing has to come. The boy came in the bike and hit her. Though the police had reached the spot the assailant sped away. No arrest has been made so far. People under the banner of CPI (M) are started protest in Varkala demanding the immediate arrest of the assailant.
The epitome of criminalization of Congress politics has been exhibited in Aryanad, near Nedumangad in Thiruvananthapuram. Congress Leader and Bloc Panchayat Member Prabhasudan and this gang involved in real estate mafia have destroyed a house his neighbor Sanal Kumar in the same night. A huge excavator rolled on the small house of Sanal kumar who denied Prabhasudan’s order to vacate house. Prabhasudan, an influential congress leader was planning to attach the plots including that of Sanal Kumar. Prabhasudan and his gang brutally attacked Sanalkumar and family before destroying the house.
In the same night a criminal gang killed a police constable Manian Pillai while checking the vehicle in Oyur in Kollam. In the attack of unidentified assailants, Assistant Sub Inspector Joy was also injured. The criminals stabbed the policemen while they were being questioned in the National Highway. The policemen were questioning the persons who came in an omni van, as they behaved suspiciously and answered contradictorily.
These three incidents are seemed as the failure of maintaining Law and order in the state. But the media is not at all taken these issues with importance it deserves. They are still eager to maintain the momentum of their notorious anti CPI (M) posture for the last 50 odd days since the murder of Chandrashekharan, leader of so called Revolutionary Marxist party, a splinter group of expelled CPI (M) workers.
