20 Apr 2009, ET Bureau
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The poll code of conduct apparently kept the ruling Left Democratic Front and the opposition United Democratic Front in Kerala on their best manners during the campaign weeks.
Now that polling is over, reports are coming in about ideological differences being sorted out physically.
Not surprisingly, one of those features the Janata Dal (S), which openly grumbled against its LDF coalition partner CPM during campaign time. On Saturday, miscreants hurled a stone at a car in which JD(S) Kozhikode district president and Vadakara MLA M K Premnath was traveling, at Vattoli in Kozhikode district.
JD(S) state president M P Veerendrakumar, who has been engaged in a verbal duel with CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan ever since JD(S) was denied the Kozhikode seat, described the attack on his party MLA as "fascist", and demanded stern action against the culprits.
Joining issue with the attack on the MLA, UDF convenor P P Thankachan alleged the CPM was perpetrating violence post polling in areas where it thought it would be the loser owing to the JD(S)'s decision to vote against the LDF candidates. There were reports of violence against JD(S) leaders and its offices in Wayanad, Kozhikode, Vadakara and Thiruvananthapuram.
In another development, police in Puthukkad let off two Congressmen who had been taken into custody on suspicion that they were part of a goonda team that had set off from Thrissur to Kannur. The duo were released from the police station after Congress workers gathered in front of the police station, protesting against their custody and stating that they were innocent.
In Kannur, the CPM had alleged a plot by Congress to assassinate expelled CPM leader A P Abdullakutty MP, and indirectly accused Congress MLA K Sudhakaran of masterminding the plot. However, Mr Sudhakaran and Mr Kutty have officially countered the allegation
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