Murder: Campus Murder Again: Let us listen to the writing on the wall Kochi News



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Kochi: A small quarrel over who had the right to paint slogans on a compound wall led to a knife plunged into the heart of a 20-year-old student, once again emphasizing the monstrous nature of politics from campus to Kerala and reviving the longstanding debate about the purpose, if any, it serves.

Abhimanyu (20), a second-year chemistry student at Maharaja's College, was murdered and another student, Arjun (19), a second-year philosophy student, was seriously injured in the Following a brawl federation of students from India and Campus Front near the back door of the college.

Kochi Central Police arrested three people in connection with the murder on Monday. They have been identified as Bilal (19), Kottayam, Farooq (19), Pathanamthitta and Riyas (37) of Fort Kochi. None of them are students of Maharaja College, police said. "The suspects are supporters of the Campus Front (the student wing of the Social Democratic Party of India) .We must still confirm their allegiance to other organizations.Their arrest will be soon recorded and they will be soon before a magistrate, they are being questioned and an investigation is underway to find the rest of the accused, "said a senior police official.

Abhimanyu, son of Manoharan, a native of Vattavada at Idukki, was stabbed in the chest around 1 am at the college entrance near the IMA blood bank and died on the way to the nearby general hospital. Sources said the fight over the use of the compound wall to paint graffiti began as early as 8:30 pm Sunday. This began when Front Campus activists accused SFI workers of scrawling the word "communal" in Malayalam on behalf of their organization, while SFI activists retorted that the wall had already been "reserved" by them.

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But the difficult question that anyone moved by the heartbreaking picture accompanying the boy's parents should ask is whether what Abhimanyu "struggled" for was worth his life? The Kerala society has long sold on its ideals, although we choose to be in denial. The parties periodically engage in bloodletting to keep the presumption and the students are the scapegoats of this imaginary macabre that politics always has a transformative potential, while current politics – left, right or right. extremism – aims to monopolize power. he. Abhimanyu failed to realize this, but it is understandable given his age. He paid with his life and those who are ultimately responsible for it are the ones who made him believe that ideology can still change the world. Admittedly, Front Campus militants have killed Abhimanyu, but his real killer is campus politics and the false hopes he creates.

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