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Thiruvananthapuram: The murder of a 15-year-old school student during the Padayanivettom temple festival at Vallikunnam in Kerala’s Alappuzha district has snowballed into a political row between the Bharatiya Janata Party and Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Abhimanyu, the Class X student, was stabbed to death during an altercation between two groups on Wednesday night.
As per the CPI(M), the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was behind the murder of Abhimanyu, who was reportedly a Students Federation of India (SFI) activist. “It was a clear political murder,” said CPI(M) Alappuzha district secretary R Nazar.
A gang stabbed him during a festival at Padayanivettom temple around 9.30 p.m. on Wednesday. A 15-year-old boy was stabbed to death at Vallikunnam in Alappuzha on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Abhimanyu of Padayanivettom.
He was a student of Amrita Higher Secondary School, Vallikunnam.
According to police, a gang stabbed him during a festival at Padayanivettom temple around 9.30 p.m. Two other people who were injured in the clash were admitted to a hospital.
The police said that they suspected the incident was the sequel to a clash that occurred during a temple festival the other day.