The Payyannur police on Saturday arrested two individuals in connection with an incident in which the car of a supporter of CPM whistleblower V Kunhikrishnan was torched. The police are yet to reveal the details of the accused.

The incident occurred on April 9, when the car of T Purushothaman, seen as a backroom strategist for Kunhikrishnan’s campaign, was set on fire at Mahadeva Gramam in Payyannur town.

The same night, the compound wall of a Congress supporter, K P Rekha, was demolished after it was used for graffiti backing Kunhikrishnan at Annoor in Payyannur town. Kunhikrishnan said the compound wall around his farmland, about 1 km from his house in Vellur, was also demolished in the early hours of Saturday because it carried campaign graffiti in his support. A poly-greenhouse inside the plot was also set on fire.

On Friday night, a Maruti Alto car belonging to M K Narayanan, a panchayat employee, was also set on fire at Mathamangalam in the Eramam-Kuttoor panchayat in the Payyannur constituency. Kunhikrishnan alleged that the attack was linked to Narayanan’s Facebook posts supporting him ahead of the election.

Narayanan is a leader of the Kerala NGO Union, a CPM-affiliated organisation of non-gazetted government employees. While Narayanan declined to speak to the media, his family said the 2020-model Alto, parked in the shed in front of the house, was set ablaze. Narayanan managed to douse the flames in time after noticing the fire.

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