12th January 2009 – Kannur the capital of bandhs

Where simple protests are enough, we have parties like BMS calling for an entire district bandh as a protest against the attack on its district secretary Jyothir Manoj by some unknown assailants.
The house of a BJP activist in Kannur district of Kerala was attacked. The men who attacked BJP activist and lawyer R Jayaprakash’ home in Thalassery killed the family’s pet dog. The dog’s throat was slit and the corpse thrown inside the porch.
Earlier, some men pelted stones on the house of former public prosecutor and CPM leader K E Gangadharan and broke the glass windows. Fresh clashes between CPM and BJP workers began on New Year’s Eve. On December 31, a CPM activist, Latheesh, lost his life in a bomb attack. The CPM then blamed the BJP-RSS combine.
The blame game is on. Let’s see when the next bandh is.