A CPI - M worker was killed in a bomb explosion while violence rocked a few places in Kerala on Thursday after the resuls of the assembly elections were declared.
Communist Party of India - Marxist worker Ravindran was killed and four others injured when a bomb was hurled at a vehicle near Pinarayi in Kannur district on Thursday evening.
The four injured were admitted to a hospital near Kannur.
CPI - M activists was celebrating the victory of their party in the elections held for the 140 - member Kerala assembly when the incident happened.
Agitated CPI - M supporters blamed the incident on a right - wing organisation.
Police said violence broke out in Thrissur and in Kumarakom near Kottayam when Bharatiya Janata Party and CPI - M workers clashed.
The office of the Revolutionary Marxist Party, founded by former CPI - M leader T. P. Chandrasekharan, was attacked near Vatakara in Kozhikode district.
A memorial to Chandrasekharan, who was brutally killed a few years back, was also defaced by CPI - M workers, RMP leaders alleged.
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