Despite strong interventions by the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), the row over the SilverLine protests that erupted in the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Kottayam appears to be escalating into a bigger crisis.
In a new turn of events, Saji Manjakadamnil, chairman of the UDF Kottayam district committee, has sent a letter to KPCC president K. Sudhakaran seeking his immediate intervention in the issue. In the letter, Mr. Manjakadambil also spoke about receiving a threatening phone call from a purported aide of Nattakom Suresh, president of the District Congress Committee.
“The claim by Mr. Suresh that he was not informed about the protest is actually wrong as I myself had conveyed him a message in this regard. In fact, it was at the District Congress Committee office where the meeting to plan the protest was held. When I tried to reach out to Mr. Suresh for a media briefing on the protest, he neither answered nor returned my phone calls,” he told mediapersons
