Leader of the Opposition V. D. Satheesan has accused Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who holds charge of the Home department, of abetting the police to foist false cases against the Youth Congress activists who had raised slogans in protest against him inside an Indigo airplane after it landed in the capital from Kannur on Monday.
Both CPI(M) State Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan and LDF Convener E. P. Jayarajan, who made public statements initially that the Youth Congress activists had raised slogans after the Chief Minister exited the aircraft, are now at pains to portray that an attempt was made on the life of Mr. Pinarayi. The about-turn is following the intervention of the CM’s Office, Mr. Satheesan said while addressing the media here on Friday.
Mr. Satheesan said the “CPI(M)-controlled police” was now engaged in applying a different standard of justice for political opponents in the State. He said the CPI(M) and its youth wing, the DYFI, in their desperate attempt to save the CM’s face, have been unleashing violence across the State. (Mr. Vijayan is facing serious charges of ministerial misconduct and private profiteering raised by Swapna Suresh, a suspect in the UAE diplomatic channel gold smuggling case.)
