THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Aruvikkara Congress MLA K. S. Sabarinathan is facing a strange problem in his constituency. Some people howl at him whenever he passes through the area at night. He doubts that the DYFI youths are doing it to cow him down. In a Facebook post, he has requested the hooligans not to howl at him in the dark. He thinks that they are trying to implement the ‘Kannur’ model in Aruvikkara and has urged the Left leaders to solve the issue. Ever since Sabarinathan won the by-election and later the 2016 Assembly elections, the local CPM youths of Pandiyodu have been giving him a hard time.
However, he was undeterred. He told DC that the other day when he was passing through the area at night, the local DYFI youths howled at him ‘religiously. “It is nothing but intolerance when every Indian citizen has the right to move around,” he said. “After I posted my comments, a local youth wrote negative comments. Even during day time, these youths block my car by parking their motor bikes,” he said. He recalled that his late father G. K. Karthikeyan too faced similar issues in the then Aryanad constituency. CPM district president Anavoor Nagappan told DC that the issue had not come to his notice so far. But he maintained that if the DYFI youths wanted, they could protest against him all over the constituency. “We will not tolerate such behaviour if the DYFI youths are behind it. But I understand that Sabarinathan is facing problems within his own party,” he said.
