All-party peace meet in Alappuzha today

Kottayam: An all-party peace meeting will be held in the Alappuzha district collectorate at 4pm on Tuesday.
The meeting, scheduled to be held on Monday evening, was postponed after district BJP leaders informed collector A Alexander that they would not be participating as the meeting coincides with the funeral of Ranjith Sreenivasan, who was killed in an attack, allegedly by SDPI workers.
The district collector had on Monday morning decided to change the timing of the meeting to 5pm. However, the BJP district leaders maintained that the deceased was dishonoured by delaying the autopsy and said that they would be boycotting the meet. The leaders also said that the BJP was not against the all-party meet intended to maintain peace in the region. Later, the district collector decided to postpone the meeting to Tuesday.
Earlier, BJP state president K Surendran told reporters that the peace meeting could be held after Ranjith’s cremation on Monday night or in the coming days. He reiterated that the government was continuing its intolerance towards the BJP. “Though the BJP is not against the efforts to restore peace, it is hard to bear the insult towards the body of Ranjith. The government and police are ignoring it. At the same time they are giving considerations to SDPI and other extremist forces,” he said. tnn