Monsoon to hit Kerala May 26

Southwest monsoon, lifeline for the country’s over 200 million farmers, is expected to set over Kerala on May 26, five days ahead of the normal onset, the weather office said on Thursday. The annual monsoon rains are expected to reach the Andaman Seas around May 20, a delay of five days, but forecast models indicate a rapid advance leading to an early onset in Kerala.

The Indian Meteorological Department has predicted that the southwest monsoon will set in over Kerala on May 26. According to the weathermen, the monsoon will be reasonably strong this time and is likely to provide bountiful rains.

“Our predictions are based on a statistical model and the onset can be four days before or four days after May 26,” said director-incharge of the IMD Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, Mr K. Santhosh.

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RSS-BJP men attack CPM Head Quarters

Four teen people, including six BJP municipal councillors, were arrested by the Delhi Police on charges of rioting after workers from the BJP and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh allegedly attacked the CPI(M)'s national headquarters, A.K. Gopalan Bhavan, at Bhai Vir Singh Marg in the heart of New Delhi with stones on Sunday morning.The police was caught completely off-guard.

Four CPI(M) central committee members were injured in the stone-throwing, in which panes of several parked vehicles, including that of senior CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury, were smashed.

Eight policemen and ten others were also injured in the violence.

The BJP and RSS workers were protesting against attacks on RSS workers in Kannur district of Kerala during the recent CPI(M)RSS clashes there in which cadres of both sides have lost their lives.

CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said that party members outside the headquarters at the time had identified BJP leader Jagdish Mukhi and Delhi mayor Aarti Mehra as being present at the time when the attack took place, and that FIRs had been filed with the police. But while Aarti Mehra flatly denied that she was ever present at the scene of the incident, Mr. Mukhi denied any role in the violence. The BJP and RSS claimed that CPI(M) cadres had started the stone-throwing.


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