The BJP on Monday demanded a “free and fair” probe into the alleged suicide of a Kerala IT professional and alleged that the Congress is playing “dastardly politics” over the incident to malign the image of the RSS.
The ruling party also accused the Congress of creating a “fake narrative” and giving a political colour to the case, claiming the opposition party is not a well wisher of Dalits but a neo-feudal organisation. Anandu Aji (26), a software engineer from Thampalakkad in Kottayam district, was found dead at a lodge in Thampanoor in Thiruvananthapuram on October 9. He was an RSS activist who belonged to a family associated with the organisation.
A day after his death, a scheduled post appeared on his Instagram account in which he allegedly held the RSS responsible for his death, accusing a man named N M — reportedly close to his family — of sexually abusing him from a young age.
In the purported suicide note, he also alleged sexual harassment during RSS camps by other people in the organisation without taking their names and said he had been diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) due to the trauma of sexual abuse. The police, however, have not named the RSS or its members in the FIR, nor has his family lodged a complaint against them so far.
