Allegations and counter: Kerala CM and state Congress chief’s political slugfest

A disagreement has began between Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Congress’s new state unit president Ok Sudhakaran because the duo go down the reminiscence lane — of muscle-power politics of their youthful days of their house district of Kannur.
A day after Vijayan stated Sudhakaran had plotted to kidnap his youngsters, Sudhakaran hit again on Saturday and requested the CM to keep up the “dignity of his post”.
Addressing the media, he requested a sequence of questions: “Why did Vijayan not inform the police if he had heard that I had planned to abduct his children? Why can’t Vijayan reveal the name of my friend who had told him about the plan? If children were facing a threat, why did Vijayan not share that information with his wife? It is unbecoming of his position as the Chief Minister to raise such an allegation.”
On Friday, Vijayan advised the media that Sudhakaran had tried to abduct his two youngsters once they have been at school. “One day, Sudhakaran’s buddy got here to me and advised me that he (Sudhakaran) had a plan to abduct my youngsters, who have been then school-going. I advised him my strategy is wait and see. I didn’t inform anybody, together with my spouse (then a faculty trainer),’’ stated Vijayan.
The Chief Minister was reacting to Sudhakaran’s declare that in 1967, throughout their days as college students of Government Brennen College, Thalassery in Kannur, Sudhakaran had knocked down Vijayan.
Sudhakaran recounted his faculty days in an interview within the newest concern of ‘Malayala Manorama’ weekly. Then a pupil chief, Sudhakaran stated his males had crushed up Vijayan, who needed to be rescued by police.
Countering him, Vijayan stated, “The incident that he had knocked me down might need occurred in his dream. How can he boast that approach? Sudhakaran is aware of he can not defeat Vijayan.’’
The Chief Minister stated late Congress chief P Ramakrishnan had stated that Sudhakaran had joined politics with an goal to generate profits. “Sudhakaran deals in foreign currency and has links with the sand mafia,” he asserted. “Leaders are afraid of him…. KPCC member Mambaram Divakaran had revealed that Sudhakaran had tried to annihilate him…”

About the allegation that he offers in overseas forex, Sudhakaran stated: “Vijayan’s office in fact got involved in gold smuggling. Swapna Suresh (key accused in the gold smuggling case) had accompanied Vijayan in all his trips abroad in four years of his first regime. Even then, he was feigning ignorance about (knowing) her.”
Stating that Vijayan has emerged from “the veil of public relations agency” throughout his press convention on Friday, the Congress chief stated, “His language and style were that of a political criminal. The allegations against me should be probed. It was not me, but Vijayan who had carried bullets in his bag.”
Sudhakaran additionally alleged that Vijayan was an accused within the homicide of Vadikkal Ramakrishnan, an RSS employee killed in 1969 at Thalassery.

Opposition chief within the Assembly V D Satheesan of the Congress and BJP state president Ok Surendran stated the Chief Minister has raised the difficulty solely to divert consideration from the controversial felling of numerous protected timber from government-assigned land.
Sudhakaran additionally introduced earlier than the media Congress’s Kannur district committee secretary Kandoth Gopi, who claimed that Vijayan had hacked him in 1977 when he led a protest in opposition to termination of beedi staff from the CPI(M)-controlled Kerala Dinesh Beedi. Showing a wound on his hand, Gopi alleged that Vijayan was apaprently carrying a sword and “targeted my neck — I got injured in the hand when I tried to save myself.”