Senior Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader C.V. Varghese’s alleged remarks that Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president K. Sudhakaran was “living on CPI(M)‘s favour” triggered a political row on Wednesday as prominent Congress leaders rallied behind their party chief demanding legal action against the former.
The controversy erupted after a video surfaced in the public domain in which the Idukki district secretary purportedly says that “Sudhakaran’s life is CPI(M)‘s favour” as his party did not want to kill a “wretched creature”.
The speech was reportedly made during a recent protest meet organised by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) at Cheruthoni against the alleged “murderous politics” of the Congress, which had convened an explanatory session in the wake of the killing of Students’ Federation of India activist Dheeraj at the Government Engineering College here.
