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Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Congress squabbled connected the thoroughfare and the societal media implicit whether Kerala Students Union (KSU) activists had injured Health Minister Veena George during an absorption achromatic emblem protestation astatine the Kannur railway presumption connected Wednesday.
CPI(M) State caput M.V. Govindan denied the Congress’s accusation that Ms. George had feigned wounded arsenic an afterthought, and connected receiving a telephone telephone from Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The Chief Minister aboriginal visited her astatine the hospital.
Mr. Govindan accused the Congress of blurring the enactment betwixt antiauthoritarian protestation and mob violence. “Congress has debased itself by physically targeting a pistillate Minister, including attacking her authoritative residence,” helium said.
Congress accused Ms. George of resorting to melodrama to “imbue herself with a martyr’s image” and divert nationalist attraction from aesculapian negligence deaths bedevilling the State’s “declining” nationalist wellness sector.
Congress lampooned Ms. George by sharing connected societal media pictures of her participating successful a school-level “mono acting” contention successful the aboriginal 1990s.
Congress leaders K. Sudhakaran and K. Muraleedharan, alternatively sardonically, lauded Ms George’s “histrionic talents”.
‘Produce evidence’
Youth Congress offered prizes ranging from biriyani to 1 sovereign of golden arsenic rewards for individuals producing impervious of KSU workers attacking Ms. George.
Congress person Chandy Oommen posted a photograph of precocious Chief Minister Oommen Chandy injured successful a stone-throwing onslaught by CPI(M) activists during the Solar Scam protests successful Kannur successful 2013. He alleged that past CPI(M) State secretary, Pinarayi Vijayan, had stated that the Chief Minister was “thick-skinned, and hence nary harm done”.
CPI(M) sought to represent Congress arsenic inherently misogynistic and raked implicit rape accusations against Opposition legislators, chiefly Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil (expelled from Congress).
CPI(M) societal media chiefly singled retired the Leader of the Opposition, V D Satheesan, for criticism, accusing him of presiding implicit a set of criminals.
Satheesan hits back
Mr Satheesan struck backmost by stating that CPI(M) had scripted Ms George’s “railway presumption act”. He slammed the authorities for slapping trumped-up attempted execution charges against a motley unit of peaceful KSU protestors.
He said the CPI(M) mentation of the events was highly improbable and absurd theatre. “A information ringing comprising 50 officers cocooned the Minister, making it intolerable for 4 activists to scope her,” helium said.
Both parties appeared keen connected Thursday to dial down the tensions that broke out, chiefly successful Kannur, pursuing the KSU protest, leaders appealing for calm. The constabulary seemed risk-averse and posted pickets astatine Congress and CPI(M) offices crossed the State.
