CPI(M) censures MLA for attending RSS function

Thrissur: CPI(M) on Saturday publicly chastised one of its MLAs, K A Arunan, who had stoked a controversy by taking part in a function organised by RSS near here recently.

K U Arunan, the party's Irinjalakuda MLA, had inaugurated a book distribution function, organised as part of the first death anniversary of RSS leader P H Shine at Irinjalakuda on Monday.

As the controversy erupted, Arunan, a former college professor, said he was unaware that the function was organised by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

CPI(M) Thrissur district secretary K Radhakrishnan told reporters here that the party has publicly censured the MLA for attending the RSS function.

Arunan's participation at the event comes at a time when the BJP has demanded imposition of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act in Kannur after an RSS worker was hacked to death allegedly by CPI(M) activists in the district on May 12.