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Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan connected Saturday lambasted Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan for providing a ministerial berth to Antony Raju, disregarding the Opposition’s objections and knowing afloat good that he was an accused successful a superior lawsuit of evidence-tampering and fabrication.
Talking to the media at Kattappana in the aftermath of a tribunal successful Thiruvananthapuram convicting Mr. Raju successful the case, Mr. Satheesan accused the Chief Minister of giving Mr. Raju governmental cover, allowing him to contention the elections and, later, inducting him into his Cabinet.
“The Chief Minister attempted to support the accused. A idiosyncratic charged with specified a superior transgression should ne'er person been fixed an Assembly seat, fto unsocial a ministerial berth. Protection of accused successful cases is what the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) are doing adjacent now,” helium said, accusing the CPI(M) of providing protection to the accused successful the Sabarimala golden theft case.
Youth Congress activists protested successful beforehand of the Secretariat demanding Mr. Raju’s resignation as MLA. Congress workers besides tried to artifact the conveyance of Mr. Raju at Nedumangad pursuing which the constabulary forcibly removed them to defuse tension.
