CM Pinarayi Vijayan slammed for political violence

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala on Tuesday  demanded the resignation of  Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in the wake of the continued political violence  in the state.     “Pinarayi Vijayan is a big zero  and DGP Loknath Behera is no better,” he said  inaugurating the UDF’s picketing in front of the secretariat against custodial deaths and the murders that  happened in Mahe  on Monday night.

The UDF organised  state-wide agitations in which  hundreds of workers from different Assembly constituencies took part and courted arrest. Among those arrested and later released were  Mr Shashi Tharoor MP and Mr V. S. Sivakumar MLA. Mr Chennithala   maintained that Mr Vijayan lacked the moral right to continue in office. Two more people belonging to CPM and RSS have been killed even before the murder of  Youth Congress worker S. P. Shuhaib  had  faded from public memory, he said.  

“Pinarayi has proved himself to be a big zero. If he  doesn’t know how to govern the state, he should step down. Never before has Kerala seen   such a disgraceful rule. The two killer parties, CPM and BJP,  have become the  bane of Kerala,”  he  said. He asked them to lay down their arms and restore peace. The latest killings should be the last, he said and added that in the  Varapuzha custodial death incident, the LDF government was trying to   hush up the case. “Kerala is undergoing difficult times. So far, only four policemen have been implicated in the Varapuzha case.  The CM is yet to visit the house of the  victim, Sreejith. There is no point in party secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan visiting his house,”  he added.