coimbatore a day after tirunelveli native and sukma district collector alex paul menon was abducted by maoists in chattisgarh union home minister p chidambaram visited the relatives of a youth congress worker who was recently murdered after he intervened in a drunken brawl involving his neighbours on april 8 near singanallur he also visited the residence of another congress functionary near kottaimedu in ukkadam before he left for a function in erode district to unveil statues of former prime minister rajiv gandhi and swami vivekananda at a private polytechnic college the minister however kept a distance from the media and remained silent on the chattisgarh abduction incident our leader came here to attend a function in erode and also visit our local level party workers and their families he later flew back to new delhi in the afternoon he also asked the local leaders to ensure justice to the family members of our youth congress worker karthikeyan who was recently murdered said rs thirumugam indian national congress leader the union minister arrived in the city early sunday morning by train he arrived at the residence of slain youth congress functionary at around 9 am and spent nearly 20 minutes at his residence in nkg nagar chidambaram also interacted with the family members of n karthikeyan 32 and assured them that the party will back them up in any crisis in the future karthikeyan was stabbed to death when he tried to intervene and pacify the family members of his neighbour who were reportedly creating a ruckus in an inebriated state