A heated adjournment debate in the Assembly on the crude bomb explosion outside AKG Centre, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] headquarters, ended in an Opposition walkout on Monday. The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) said Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had resorted to ‘obfuscation and disingenuous denials’ when the Opposition confronted him with ‘pointed questions’ about the ‘fishy’ incident.
The government had allowed the debate on the adjournment motion moved by Congress legislator P.C. Vishnunath to put ‘politically embarrassing’ speculations about the happening to rest.
Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan said Mr. Vijayan had no explanation on why Left Democratic Front (LDF) convener E.P. Jayarajan had jumped the gun and blamed the Congress for the attack. Mr. Satheesan said the ruling front ‘celebrated’ the incident to distract public attention from scandals dogging the government. The police enabled the attack by scaling down night patrol, he alleged.
