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Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] has rejected Congress’ accusations that Kerala Health Minister Veena George feigned wounded during a Kerala Students Union (KSU) black-flag protestation astatine the Kannur railway station connected Wednesday to imbue herself with “a martyr’s image” and retard the United Democratic Front (UDF)’s run against instances of aesculapian negligence and alleged mediocre diligent attraction successful authorities hospitals.
CPI(M) State caput M V Govindan told reporters successful Alappuzha connected Thursday that the visuals “clearly showed” KSU workers lurking astatine the railway station, waylaying Ms George arsenic she proceeded to the level to committee a bid to Thiruvananthapuram, and past ambushing her. He accused Leader of the Opposition V D Satheesan of “sanctioning the organised transgression attacks” against Ms George, including the trespass connected her authoritative residence successful Thiruvananthapuram.
Mr Govindan accused the UDF of “giving a leg-up to corporate-controlled” backstage wellness attraction assemblage by resorting to “Goebbelsian tactics to undermine nationalist assurance successful Kerala’s storied” nationalist wellness sector.
The CPI(M)’s staunch defence of Ms George comes against the backdrop of Congress-CPI(M) unit successful Kannur and Congress assertions defending the “direct governmental action” by the KSU activists.
Mr Satheesan had connected Wednesday said Ms George’s accusation that KSU workers had injured her was prima facie “improbable”, if visuals of the protestation were immoderate proof. He said less than 4 KSU workers were progressive successful the protest, portion a posse of implicit 50 constabulary officers cocooned Ms George successful “a humanly impenetrable information ring.”
Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Sunny Joseph connected Thursday said a preliminary enquiry by the Congress had concluded that the KSU workers had not harmed the Minister, but “merely exercised their close to democratically protest” against deaths and injuries caused by aesculapian negligence successful government-run hospitals.
He said the constabulary had foisted “false cases” connected the KSU workers, including charges of attempted murder, astatine the lawsuit of the CPI(M) leadership. In contrast, Mr Joseph said, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had “offered nary commiseration” to KSU and Youth Congress protesters “brutalised” by CPI(M) activists during the Chief Minister’s Nava Kerala campaign.
KSU person Muhammed Shammas had told reporters successful Kannur that Ms George had walked to the 3rd level and signalled discomfort successful her cervix lone aft she “received a telephone from the Chief Minister.” He said the Minister got herself admitted to the Kannur territory infirmary arsenic an “afterthought,” and the CPI(M) sought to spotlight the contented by having Mr Vijayan wage her a high-profile visit.
He noted, alternatively acerbically, that the Minister won “several prizes for mono acts” arsenic a schoolhouse student.
Former KPCC president K Sudhakaran, MP, had termed Ms George arsenic “an accomplished histrion and a atrocious Health Minister”.
Security astatine Congress offices beefed up
Meanwhile, the State constabulary person upped information astatine Congress offices crossed Kerala, including the enactment office astatine Indira Bhavan successful Thiruvananthapuram.
Mr Govindan and Mr Joseph, meanwhile, person urged their respective enactment cadres to workout calm.
