A meeting between Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and top BJP-RSS leaders has agreed to advice the respective rank and file to keep their counsels and not be provoked into attacks against each other.

Vijayan told newspersons after the two-hour-long consultations this morning that the recent attacks on the BJP state office as also house of state CPI(M) secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan were 'unfortunate.'

A number of houses of councillors of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation and other local leaders, cars, flag posts, and other assets were also pelted with stones or destroyed over the past few days.

According to Vijayan, these had violated understanding reached at an all-party meeting held three months ago in the context of widespread attacks in the politically volatile Kannur district.

A second all-party meeting is scheduled to be held here on September 6 while bilateral consultations will be held locally in between in trouble-hit Kannur, Kottayam and Thiruvananthapuram districts.

Leaders of the parties in Thiruvananthapuram will meet locally as early as tomorrow, according to Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, who too present at the meeting.

Emerging from the discussions, the Chief Minister chose to address the media alone while the BJP state president Kummanam Rajasekharan and top RSS leader Gopalankutty Master met them separately.

Rajasekharan said the BJP and the RSS would support all initiatives of the state government to promote peace in the state, which was the most telling need of the hour.

But he held the ruling CPI(M) for reducing the state police to the status of hit men let loose by a biased administration on targets it had identified at random.

Unless the police is allowed to act independently and the BJP-RSS given the space it deserves to carry out its activities in the state with full freedom, peace cannot establish on a sustained basis.

Meanwhile, six persons who are alleged to have been involved directly in the murder of Rajesh, the 34-year-old RSS activist on Friday night, are in police custody.

Two others are at large, and the police have spread out their net to the interior of Thiruvananthapuram district and also the inter-state border to nab them.

Kerala Governor P Sathasivam had summoned the Chief Minister and the State Police Chief to Raj Bhavan yesterday and had expressed anguish over the disturbed law and order in the state.

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