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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has condemned the onslaught allegedly by the Kerala Students’ Union (KSU) connected Health Minister Veena George successful Kannur connected Wednesday afternoon.
Ms. George appeared to person sustained important wounded successful the attack, including contusions connected her cervix and hands. She is presently receiving attraction successful the Intensive Care Unit astatine the Kannur District Hospital. Mr. Vijayan called connected her astatine the hospital.
The Chief Minister’s Office said the incidental occurred erstwhile KSU activists staged a protestation against the Minister arsenic she arrived astatine the Kannur Railway Station to committee a Vande Bharat bid to Thiruvananthapuram. Speaker A.N. Shamseer was contiguous erstwhile the KSU’s protestation erupted, seemingly catching the leaders and the constabulary unawares.
Mr. Vijayan termed the incidental a “heinous attack” connected a pistillate holding nationalist office. The incidental reflected the inherent villainy successful the Congress leadership. “The Congress unleashed a set of assailants against the Minister. It has violated each norms of antiauthoritarian protestation and resorted to mob violence,” helium said.
Mr. Vijayan said Kerala’s nationalist wellness strategy was storied and had emerged arsenic the champion successful the country, arsenic per surveys and audits conducted by assorted nationalist and planetary agencies, including the NITI Aayog. He said the Congress’s unit against Ms. George would not besmirch oregon obfuscate the government’s stellar way grounds successful nationalist wellness attraction and aesculapian work delivery.
Mr. Vijayan enactment the onus of the onslaught connected Congress and United Democratic Front (UDF) leadership. He cautioned the absorption against fostering unit by waylaying nationalist figures, chiefly women. He cautioned the UDF against creating a law-and-order contented successful the State.
Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State secretary, M.V. Govindan, blamed the onslaught squarely connected Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan. He urged the CPI(M) to protestation the trespass connected the Minister crossed the State.
Oommen Chandy incidental from 2013
When journalists pointed retired that erstwhile Chief Minister Oommen Chandy had sustained a caput wounded during chromatic pelting by CPI(M) workers (in Kannur successful 2013), Mr. Govindan stated: “Ms Chandy was not a woman”.
CPI(M) State committee subordinate and General Education Minister V. Sivankutty blamed Mr. Satheesan for singling retired Ms. George for violence. He said Congress workers had stormed her authoritative residence successful Thiruvananthapuram past week and placed a wreath astatine her doorstep.
The Students’ Federation of India (SFI) has called for a State-wide protestation against the “KSU attack”.
Left Democratic Front (LDF) convenor T.P. Ramakrishnan asked Mr. Satheesan and UDF lawman person P.K. Kunhalikutty, of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), to marque the Opposition’s stance wide connected the attack.
Following the attack, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan visited the infirmary and met the Minister. Other leaders P. Jayarajan, M. Vijin, MLA, and different leaders were besides present.
CPI(M) territory caput K.K. Ragesh who visited the Health Minister astatine the infirmary told the media that she sustained superior injuries connected the cervix successful the attack.
He claimed that the onslaught was a continuation of an earlier determination to endanger the Minister successful the backdrop of the incidental astatine her authoritative residence successful the capital.
Describing it arsenic a brutal, ruthless and premeditated assault, Mr. Ragesh called for a beardown protestation against the incident. He besides demanded a reply from the Opposition person V.D Satheesan.
