A 20-year-old Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) worker was allegedly hacked to death in Kerala’s Thrissur district.
\nThe incident took place during a temple festival in Mukkattukara area of the the district on Sunday night. The BJP alleged that CPM workers were behind the act and called for a strike today.
\nThe police, however, said the murder is not political. The killing was a result of a scuffle that broke out during the festival, they said. The deceased has been identified as Nirmal.
\nThe incident comes a month after a BJP worker was hacked to death in Thalassery in Kannur district of Kerala.
\nFifty-two-year-old Santhosh Kumar was a former mukhya shikshak of the RSS unit in Andallur and a booth president of the BJP in the area.
\nThe RSS office near Thaliparamba was also attacked in a separate incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 20-year-old Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) worker was allegedly hacked to death in Kerala’s Thrissur district. The incident took place during a temple festival in Mukkattukara area of the the district on Sunday night. The BJP alleged that CPM workers were behind the act and called for a strike today. The police, however, said the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}