The high-profile police case against Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar for taking to social media to allegedly incite hate between different faiths in the immediate aftermath of the murderous blast at an evangelical prayer convention at Kalamassery in Ernakulam on Sunday has triggered a touchy political debate in Kerala.
In a Tuesday post on X (formerly Twitter), Mr. Chandrasekhar alleged the criminal case was an act of political retaliation by INDIA bloc partners Rahul Gandhi and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan for exposing Hamas’s (a militant organisation that controls Gaza in Palestine) link with violent radical outfits in Kerala.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State president K. Surendran stated that the government had pandered to religious extremists by foisting a false case on Mr. Chandrasekhar.
