A RSS worker was hacked to death last night in Kannur, the politically sensitive northern district of Kerala.the state, triggering a blame game between the BJP and the CPI-M.
BJP slammed CPI-M for the murder, while the CPIM has denied it, saying it was the fallout of a local incident relating to insulting a girl.
The police said, 8 CPI-M sympathisers have been taken into custody and they are being questioned. The parents and a brother of the deceased also were attacked by the miscreants. The incident comes after a brief political calm in the district, which frequently witnesses violent clashes between CPI-M and BJP.