Earlier, speaking at a meet the press programme at Calicut Press Club, he said RMP leader T P Chandrasekharan's murder case would not affect CPI(M) in Vatakara parliament constituency or any other area as it was just a poll campaign issue raised by Congress-led UDF against them.
A CPI(M) rebel from party bastion Onchiyam in Kozhikode district, Chandrasekharan had floated a parallel outift called Revolutionary Marxist Party after falling out with the leadership.
He was brutally hacked to death in May 2012.
