Communist Party of India (CPI) Secretary D. Raja has said the recent statement of Congress leader and United Democratic Front (UDF) candidate in the Wayanad constituency Rahul Gandhi against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is immature and baseless.
Addressing the media in Wayanad on April 20 (Saturday) Mr. Raja said Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and All India Congress Committee general secretary K.C. Venugopal should advise Mr. Gandhi to withdraw his statement inviting the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to arrest Mr. Vijayan.
At a time when a sharp protest was taking place across the country against the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, such a statement from a national leader like Mr. Gandhi was quite unfortunate, Mr. Raja said.