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BJP seeks governor's permission to prosecute Nayanar

The Kerala unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has sought the permission of Governor S S Kang to prosecute Chief Minister E K Nayanar on a charge of inciting violence in the wake of the murder of a Democratic Youth Federation of India leader, Bhaskara, in Kasargod district.

Addressing a press conference in Trivandrum yesterday, BJP state general secretary and central executive member P S Sreedharan Pillai said Nayanar had exhorted his party men to adopt violence against BJP and RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) workers at a function in Kasargod in May 1997, soon after Bhaskara's murder.

The DYFI is the youth wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the dominant partner in the ruling Left Democratic Front. Nayanar is a member of the CPI-M.

Pillai said the state unit of the RSS has also sent a legal notice to Nayanar and the CPI-M mouthpiece, Desabhimani, seeking Rs 10 lakh as compensation for his article of April 9, 1998, alleging that the BJP and the RSS were behind Mahatma Gandhi's assassination.

Pillai said the Kapoor Commission's report and a statement in Parliament in 1977 by Prime Minister Morarji Desai had cleared the RSS of the charge.

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