In Kerala’s communist citadel, the enemy is CPM
Scores of posters line the narrow roads of Onchiyam in Kozhikode, Kerala, each with a portrait of T P Chandrasekharan, the leader who had rebelled against the CPM and was murdered on May 5. “Neither supari gangs nor their political masters can stop the storm created by your last breath,” reads one sign. “You are not a renegade,” says another. Chandrasekharan’s three-room, tiled house continues to look like a pilgrim centre, with visitors arriving from across the state and including many who had never met him. They pledge solidarity with his wife K K Rama, who has determined to take ahead her husband’s fledgling Revolutionary Marxist Party.