The police action against a journalist of a Malayalam news channel on the complaint by a Students’ Federation of India (SFI) leader kept the political pot boiling in Kerala with the Opposition Congress flaying the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) in the State over the issue and the Left party claiming it was not against press freedom.
Senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala on Wednesday came down heavily on CPI(M) State secretary M.V. Govindan for his recent remarks regarding the conspiracy and defamation case against the scribe.
The journalist was booked in the case in connection with an alleged fake exam result of the State secretary of SFI, the student wing of CPI(M).
