Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said incidents of violence increase when the Left Democratic Front - now headed by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan - is in power in the state. Sad that every time LDF is in power, incidents of violence increase. You have political opponents being killed: Arun Jaitley in #Keralapic.twitter.com/YuCea0TrmS - ANI (@ANI_news) August 6, 2017"I do hope this environment doesn't continue for very long...I hope the State government takes active steps to prevent the recurrence of any such incident," he said. The finance minister, who met Rajesh's family members today, earlier said "even the enemy of a country doesn't do this." CPI(M) minister K Surendran, too, met the family of the slain RSS worker.

Source: India Today August 06, 2017 11:15 UTC