A fresh war of words has erupted between Congress leaders and Ministers of the Kerala Cabinet as the last leg of the Navakerala Sadas in Ernakulam district is set to culminate with sessions in Tripunithura and Kunnathunadu Assembly constituencies on January 2 (Tuesday).
The hours-long acrimonious siege of the Palarivattom police station by the top brass of the Congress leadership to get the release of the Youth Congress activists arrested for engaging in black flag protest at the Navakerala Sadas bus and the comments made by the leaders during the course of the protest served as the latest trigger.
While Hibi Eden, MP, has dubbed the eventual release of the activists on bail shortly after Monday midnight as “a slap on the face of the police” headed by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Ernakulam District Congress Committee president Muhammed Shiyas made an even more aggressive statement. He said “the last sacrament of the Navakerala Sadas” will take place in Ernakulam.
