Dattatreya Hosabale Dattatreya HosabaleAlleging a nexus between CPM cadres and Islamic jihadists in south India, senior RSS leader Dattatreya Hosabale said on Friday that high recruitment of Islamic State members from Left-ruled Kerala confirms the link between the two. “There is definitely some nexus between jihadi terrorists operating in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala and the CPM cadres,” the RSS Sahsarkaryavah said at a press conference on the killings of Swayamsevaks in Kerala. Pointing out that the NIA “arrested jihadi terrorists” from a “party (CPM) village” in Kerala, he asked: “No one can reach a party village. Hosabale demanded a high-level probe into the killings of RSS workers and said the Sangh has “apprehensions” about the CPM’s proposal for talks to end violence. At the press meet, he first denied that RSS workers had killed any CPM cadre, but later admitted that “there may be some retaliation.

Source: Indian Express August 05, 2017 00:00 UTC