THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Former chief minister Oommen Chandy was caught off guard when his wife Mariamma made a speech at a venue in Kuwait on Friday in his presence. She recalled the path she had been treading for the last several years ever since the solar scam cropped up. She urged the women to think of 'tensions' she was undergoing which would enable them to see theirs as "trivial". The couple left for Kuwait on Thursday to attend the Overseas Indian Cultural Congress award night to felicitate winners from different spheres.
In his speech, Mr Chandy came down on the wrong policies of the BJP Government especially, demonetisation and the GST. But he did not forget to remind the audience revival of the Indian National Congress spearheaded by vice-president Rahul Gandhi. When his 68-year-old companion came to the podium to address them, she began by saying that her husband is tense, thinking about what she is going to blurt out.
"You all must be already aware of the travails of my husband over the last several years. If wives and mothers just think about my tensions that would immediately help you to forget yours. My simple theory is that life is too short and anger is not a solution for anything," said Mariamma Oommen who had retired as a senior bank official eight years ago. It was for the first time she openly commented about her husband's travails in the aftermath of the solar scam. AICC spokesperson Kushboo Sundar also attended the programme. Mr Chandy and his wife returned to Kochi on Saturday.
