Two days after a Communist Party of India (Marxist) worker was murdered in the same district, a 19-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activist was hacked to death in Kerala's Kannur on Wednesday, the state police said.
The victim, identified as Remith, was killed in front of a petrol pump in Pinarayi village around 10 am, a police official said.
According to sources, Remith's father was also murdered some years ago.
This incident comes close after the killing of 52-year-old CPI-M grassroot leader K Mohanan, who was allegedly hacked to death by suspected RSS activists on Monday.
Both of these murders took place in the assembly constituency of Dharmadom represented by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
BJP workers on Monday had staged a protest in the national capital against the killing of two party workers in Kerala allegedly by CPI-M cadres and accused it of "unleashing a reign of terror over political opponents".
The protest was led by Delhi BJP unit in-charge Shyam Jaju and city chief Satish Upadhyay.
The BJP workers marched from Delhi BJP office at Pandit Pant Marg to the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) office near Gole Market in central Delhi.
Addressing the demonstrators Jaju said, "It is sad that communists though irrelevant in politics have unleashed a reign of terror over political opponents in Kerala since they came to power a few months ago."
"Earlier when CPI-M was in power in Bengal there too political violence was very common. We warn them that people of the country will not tolerate such atrocities anymore," Jaju said.
Two scheduled caste BJP workers were killed in Kannur district of Kerala last week.
(With inputs from IANS)
