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CPI(M) activists from Andhra Pradesh staged a protestation present connected Thursday (May 28, 2026), condemning the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids connected the residence of erstwhile Kerala Chief Minister and the party’s elder person Pinarayi Vijayan successful Kerala.
CPI(M) State caput V. Srinivasa Rao termed the ED enactment “politically motivated” and alleged that the raids were carried retired arsenic portion of a ‘planned conspiracy to intimidate the Left forces and antiauthoritarian voices’. He asked democrats, civilian rights activists and governmental parties crossed the state to condemn the raids.
CPI(M) Central Committee subordinate P. Lokanadham alleged that the raids were intended to divert nationalist attraction from rising prices of petrol, diesel and essentials. He said that contempt hours of searches, the ED had failed to retrieve thing incriminating, which showed the enactment was driven by governmental motives.
CPI(M) State Secretariat subordinate Ch. Babu Rao described the enactment arsenic “malicious and politically motivated”.
Referring to remarks by Congress person Rahul Gandhi, Mr. Babu Rao said Mr. Gandhi himself had questioned wherefore the BJP had not initiated ED enactment against Mr. Vijayan earlier. “Is this the relation of a enactment that claims to uphold secular values?” helium asked, alleging that the statements indicated a tacit knowing betwixt the BJP and the Congress.
Warning the Centre against what helium termed “political conspiracies”, Mr. Babu Rao said specified tactics would not win and that radical were becoming alert of the government’s intentions.
Several CPI(M), Left and farmers’ organisation leaders took portion successful the protest.
