Overview
- On Saturday, Pinarayi Vijayan posted tributes on X and Facebook to former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, calling his killing "brutal martyrdom" and a warning about the cost of communal hatred.
- In his messages, Vijayan described the 2002 events as the "Gujarat genocide" and attributed the Gulberg Society attack to the Sangh Parivar.
- He noted that 69 people, including Jafri, were burned to death at the Ahmedabad housing complex on February 28, 2002.
- Vijayan highlighted Zakia Jafri's decades-long legal fight challenging probes that cleared then–Gujarat CM Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders, saying she died at 86 "without getting justice."
- The CPI(M) also issued a remembrance condemning the Sangh Parivar's politics and honoring Zakia Jafri's persistence in seeking justice.