Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday said Governor Arif Mohammed Khan's "norm-shattering anti-government press conference" at Raj Bhavan was an unprecedented breach of protocol and unseemly politicking to advantage the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's communally divisive and revisionist agenda.
The Constitution envisaged the Governor as a detached figure, not a Central government agent or political mouthpiece. Mr. Vijayan alleged Mr. Khan threw constitutional propriety to the wind and brazenly aligned Raj Bhavan with the Sangh Parivar cause.
Mr. Vijayan said Mr. Khan called on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat as constitutional head of State and not in a private capacity. He said Mr. Khan claimed he trained RSS organisers. “Scores of communists had fallen to the knives of such trained cadres, and the Governor is lamenting about political violence in Kannur,” he said.
