Sudhakaran refutes Kerala CM’s allegations
Challenges Pinarayi to show them, sees try to divert consideration from tree-felling row
K. Sudhakaran, MP and Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president, stated right here on Saturday that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s allegations in opposition to him have been aimed toward diverting consideration from the controversy over unlawful tree-felling within the State. He challenged the Chief Minister to show the allegations.
Mr. Sudhakaran, addressing a press convention on the District Congress Committee (DCC) workplace in Kochi on Saturday, stated he would produce any variety of former college students and academics of Government Brennen College, Thalassery, to disprove the allegations made by Mr. Vijayan. (Earlier, in response to an interview given by Mr. Sudhakaran to a media outlet, Mr. Vijayan had made a reference to a fracas within the school, the place he and Mr. Sudhakaran have been contemporaries.)
‘Off-the-record statements’
Mr. Sudhakaran stated there have been political variations amongst varied teams of scholars within the school then, however no violent actions have been deliberate. He claimed that components of the interview that appeared in {a magazine} had been disclosed to the reporter ‘off the record.’ Mr. Sudhakaran blamed the reporter for not holding the promise that the remarks wouldn’t be revealed.
The Congress chief stated allegations like plans to kidnap Mr. Vijayan’s kids have been completely false. “Why were no complaints lodged with the police in this regard then,” he requested. Mr. Vijayan had stooped low to make allegations in opposition to him and the Congress and he wouldn’t retort in the identical method.
He stated that the Chief Minister, in levelling allegations in opposition to him, had gone off the script ready by the general public relations companies engaged by him. “It was a case of the Chief Minister speaking in his own style,” Mr. Sudhakaran stated.
The BJP alliance
The Congress chief alleged that the Chief Minister’s allegations of the Congress being in cahoots with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) within the current Assembly elections have been deceptive. “Mr. Vijayan’s first election victory in Koothuparamba, in 1971, was achieved with the help of the then Jan Sangh, the predecessor of BJP,” he stated, including that the CPI(M) had an understanding with the BJP within the current Assembly elections.
On the tree-felling row, he stated the Congress was not in opposition to farmers’ pursuits, however would oppose those that took undue benefit of Revenue Department orders on tree-felling.