KUDIPPAKA” ? IN KANNUR POLITICS AN INVESTIGATION?

Kudippaka : The word “ Kudippaka” denotes family feud ie, hatred between two families. In medieval days the atrocities or murder committed by any on the member of another family might lead to kudippaka between these families. In such cases the members belonging to a family who declared kudippaka against another family as a revenge for any serious reasons like murder had the right to eliminate not only the elder male members but also their children. This would continue on both sides as long as the Kudippaka between them existed. Kudippaka may be recalled that the politics of Kannur, unlike other parts of Kerala and even that of the neighbouring districts in Malabar, has a strong dose of violence in it. This violent clashes, at one time between the CPI(M) and Congress and now intermittently occurring between CPI(M) and BJP resulting in wanton killing of party workers on both sides, remain a standing testimony to this contention.