On Sunday morning, Vinodini, the mother of BJP leader Ranjith Sreenivas, went to the local temple Pooja. “Brothers (Lanjits) need to attend the first meeting of the (BJP) OBC Motya Committee in Kochi. That day must have been a heavenly blessing for our family”. IT specialty My brother, Abhijith, said.
Ranjit was allegedly killed by SDPI activists on Sunday in retaliation for the killing of Secretary of State KS Shan the night before.
Ranjit returned home on Sunday morning after leaving his eldest daughter, Baga, for a tutor, his brother said. For the family, nothing seemed out of the ordinary until then.
“There was no reason for Ranjith to panic,” said an acquaintance at the family`s home on Monday. “He had never been involved in any criminal case. (But) when an SDPI statelevel leader (Shan) was killed, the retaliating gang was looking for a BJP leader of the same statur.”
Known as a suave face of the BJP in Alappuzha, Ranjith was to start a new inning in his political career on Sunday, after he was made the state secretary of BJP`s state OBC Morcha.
Abhijith said his brother was beaten with a hammer on the head and hacked mindlessly by the gang, which also vandalised the house. He said the gang hacked Ranjit to death and injured his face in front of his mother, wife, and young daughter.
Avisis said that while Bagga was in class, Fridia, a student of Class VI, the second daughter of Rungis, saw the attack.
“The gang swung her sword at her when she came across her drawing room. When my mother fell into an attack, the gang put a chair on her face,” he says. I did.
Ranjit, who was promoted as the leader of the Dibara fishing caste, was a lawyer. His wife, Risha, is also an Alappuzha lawyer. The bodies of BJP employees were cremated on the premises of the family’s ancestral homes in the district’s Arattupuzha on Monday night.
