Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan on Saturday, January 27, 2024, cast Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan at the centre of an alleged government-sponsored plot to harm him physically to precipitate a Constitutional crisis.
Ending his sit-in demonstration against a Students Federation of India (SFI) black flag protest at Nilamel in Kollam district, Mr. Khan told reporters that the administration hoped to provoke him to resort to “drastic action” to hide their failure as a government.
He said the government wanted to escape responsibility for the State’s “self-inflicted financial crisis”. Mr. Khan said the government had admitted in the Kerala High Court that the treasury was bone dry and the administration hard-pressed to honour its financial commitments, including to pensioners and lakhs of beneficiaries of monthly social welfare doleouts.
