ONLY CPM VIOLENCE MATTERS, NOT OTHERS'

It has been the practice followed by Malayala Manorama and Mathrubhoomi among other newspapers  to publish reports with the caption ‘CPM violence’ in regard to any incident that occurs in our state whether it be boundary dispute or  any other matter involving members or sympathizers of CPM. We have been seeing news items bearing captions about CPM violence only till now.  As is known, many violent incidents involving active members of Congress, Muslim League and other parties had taken place in our State in the past.  Intriguingly,  none of these cases  was reported with the caption ‘Congress violence’, ’Muslim League violence’ or RSS violence atleast for once in the columns of these news papers.  Violence committed by any party irrespective of party affiliation,  is violence only. Then what is special about CPM violence alone? Why are they avoiding to report about Congress violence or violence indulged in by any other parties?

There is  another interesting aspect of this issue.  Let us suppose in a locality some clash takes place involving CPM members or sympathizers on the one side and members of other party or parties on the other side resulting in the death of a member of the latter.  In such case, Malayala Manorama and Mathrubhoomi are very particular to give photos of the deceased’s family members including wife and children crying followed by publishing interviews of neighbours of the deceased man as also heart-renting stories about the ‘Marxist horror and cruelty’.  On the contrary, if a CPM man gets killed in such an incident and the murderers belong to Congress, Muslim League or any of its allies or even BJP or RSS for that matter, they are not bothered about  following the above procedure?  It is intriguing that even in this case they are not taking a neutral stance . It is not understood as to what is the justification for this discrimination?  Is it their attitude that if  the murdered person is a CPM man, he deserves to die? It can only be attributed to nothing but out and out anti-CPM sentiment.

The latest  instance in the corollary of  said discrimination in giving news is the report regarding the recent gruesome murders of two CPM leaders in West Bengal by supporters of Trinamool Congress the other day.  In the news item covering the said murders also no caption is given as Trinamool Congress violence .  Had the murderers belonged to CPM and murdered were either leaders of Trinamool Congress or  Congress we can very well assume  what would have been the caption of that news.  It could have been nothing but ‘CPM violence, twoTrinamool Congress  leaders murdered or two Congress leaders murdered’ as the case may be.

This discriminatory policy being pursued by  Malayala Manorama speaks volumes of their hatred for CPM which makes a mockery of  their proclaimed  motto ‘Sathyameva Jayathe’.

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