No evidence of KSU workers attacking Health Minister Veena George: Satheesan

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Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan has said that nary evidence, including video, has emerged of Kerala Students Union (KSU) workers attacking Health Minister Veena George.

Speaking to reporters successful Ernakulam, Mr. Satheesan said the United Democratic Front (UDF) would proceed its black-flag protests against Ms. George and that the Communist Party of India (Marxist)’s [CPI(M)] threats of unit would not deter the Opposition. “The black-flag protests against the Minister volition continue,” helium said. 

Mr. Satheesan noted that the KSU protesters numbered lone “four oregon five." In contrast, helium said, a posse of constabulary personnel, an estimated 35 officers, protected Ms. George.

“No KSU idiosyncratic reached anyplace adjacent her. In fact, Ms. George was seen charging towards the workers. The Congress has conducted a preliminary enquiry and recovered nary wrongdoing connected the portion of the workers. If immoderate inculpatory grounds emerges, the enactment volition instrumentality enactment against them,” helium said. 

Mr. Satheesan accused the CPI(M) of sensationalising a regular protestation for predetermination propaganda purposes. He noted that the precocious Chief Minister Oommen Chandy was injured connected the caput during a CPI(M) protestation successful Kannur.

When journalists pointed retired that General Education Minister V. Sivankutty had held the Leader of the Opposition straight liable for the onslaught connected the Health Minister, Mr. Satheesan said: “The authorities tends to blasted the Leader of the Opposition for each the ills it has visited connected the radical of Kerala. In fact, the CPI(M) is doing a nationalist relations run for me.”

Former Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president K. Sudhakaran, MP, termed Ms. George an “accomplished histrion and an inadequate Health Minister.” In a statement, helium accused the CPI(M) of staging governmental theatre to divert nationalist attraction from the LDF government’s terrible shortcomings. He dared the CPI(M) to nutrient grounds showing KSU workers harming Ms. George. “The ocular grounds connected manus shows nary specified trespass connected the portion of the KSU workers. No footage broadcast by tv channels shows immoderate unit against the Minister,” helium said. 

In a Facebook post, KSU person P. Mohammed Shamnas recommended a “best histrion award” for Ms. George.

Published - February 25, 2026 07:22 p.m. IST

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