| | Marad: Antony turns table on CPI-M .:. NewKerala.Com, India News Channel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 5: In an attack on CPI(M), former Kerala chief minister A K Antony today said the party's hands were "stained with the blood" of the 2002 riot at Marad, which preceded the 2003 massacre that claimed nine lives in the same locality. |
 | | In a sharp rebuttal of CPI(M) state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan's charge that Antony as Chief Minister was primarily responsible for the Marad carnage, the Congress leader said the judicial probe into the incident had brought to light the fact that CPI-M had sought to derive political mileage out of the communal divide in the area. |
 | | The Commission had clearly stated that peace efforts between the two communities in the area was not to the liking of the CPI(M), which wanted to exploit the communal polarisation in the area, Antony told a press meet here. |
| www.newkerala.com /news4.php?action=fullnews&id=31967 (503 words) |