THIRUVANTHAPURAM: Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal on Sunday, claimed that his party workers were brutally attacked by the CPI(M) goons and police.
He further claimed that the Kerala CM was doing the same thing to the Opposition that BJP does to opposition parties.
“Everywhere our boys were brutally attacked by the police and CPI(M) goons. We are fighting against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the dictatorial government and their attitude at the national level, but unfortunately in Kerala CPI(M) leader Pinarayi Vijayan is doing the same thing to attack the opposition parties, basically Congress and the UDF. This is condemnable,” said Venugopal.
On December 21, Leader of Opposition in the Kerala Legislative Assembly VD Satheesan alleged that Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is threatening him.
“They have initiated a case against me…The CM is trying to threaten me, I don’t have any problem… They are sending young people to jail, I’m also going to jail with them. When they are sending the youngsters of the Congress party and UDF to jail, we will go with them…For the last so many weeks they have been brutally attacking our youth. They also tried to attack young women,” VD Satheesan said.
He further asserted that the Kerala Chief Minister justified the actions of the accused person.
“The first accused should be the Chief Minister of Kerala. Unfortunately, the Chief Minister of Kerala justified the actions of the accused person. He said that it was a life-saving activity and it should be continued,” he added.
Kerala Police has registered a case against the Leader of Opposition VD Satheesan regarding the Youth Congress march violence on December 20.
The Congress leader has been charged under non-bailable sections of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly attacking the police and participating in the destruction of public property during the march.
The protest march was held against the alleged attacks on Youth Congress workers who waved black flags during the Nava Kerala Sadas, an outreach programme of the state government. (ANI)