Alappuzha district in Kerala was rocked by back-to-back killings of two party leaders, the first belonging to the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) and the second to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), leading to clamping of prohibitory order by police on Sunday.Following the killing of an SDPI state secretary, a BJP leader was hacked to death subsequently within 12 hours and prohibitory order under Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) Section 144 was imposed in the entire Alappuzha district on Sunday, district officials said.K S Shan, the state secretary of the SDPI in Kerala, was brutally attacked on Saturday night while he was on his way back home and his party alleged that the RSS was behind it.

Alappuzha district in Kerala was rocked by back-to-back killings of two party leaders, the first belonging to the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) and the second to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), leading to clamping of prohibitory order by police on Sunday.Following the killing of an SDPI state secretary, a BJP leader was hacked to death subsequently within 12 hours and prohibitory order under Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) Section 144 was imposed in the entire Alappuzha district on Sunday, district officials said.K S Shan, the state secretary of the SDPI in Kerala, was brutally attacked on Saturday night while he was on his way back home and his party alleged that the RSS was behind it.