Accusing Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] of unleashing a political attack on Governor Arif Mohammed Khan to deflect attention from his pointed queries, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State president K. Surendran said that people would come forward to defend the Governor against the relentless attacks.
Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, he said the Governor’s accusation that the Chief Minister directed the police not to investigate the ‘attack’ against him at the Indian History Congress venue in Kannur two years ago, points to the state of police force under the current government.
“Whenever the State’s police force attempts to carry out an honest investigation, the government interferes to derail it. Now, the Kozhikode CPI(M) district leadership has criticised the City Police Commissioner for taking action against DYFI activists who had assaulted the security staff at the Kozhikode medical college. How can a common citizen get justice here when the Governor himself is not getting it? This shows that the police force is being made to function as per the interests of the CPI(M),” he said.
