CPM playing communal card: Kunhalikkutty. Malappuram: IUML general secretary P.K. Kunhalikkutty Saturday alleged that the CPM is playing a communal card to extricate itself from political troubles. The tactics used by the party including hand kerchief in Fazal murder and the Masha Allah sticker following the murder of T.P. Chandrasekharan are pointers towards this, he alleged. Secular leaders in CPM should investigate the mischief being perpetrated under the cover of hartal, Kunhalikkutty said. The attacks against places of religious worship in Thalapramba and Kannur should be probed, he added..