Kottayam: Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala on Thursday said that taking back NCP leader A.K. Saseendran in the state cabinet would be an insult to the women and the state. "The chief minister has the right to induct Saseendran as a minister, but the LDF and the CPM should stop preaching morality," he told reporters here. Mr Saseendran may have been trapped by the channel activists. However, everyone had listened to the indecent language used by him, he said.
"Saseendran didn't deny the words uttered by him. He resigned after his obscene language became public and he lost the decency of a political worker," Mr Chennithala said. "The judicial commission recommendation to cancel the licence of the Mangalam TV is unwarranted. If the channel is culpable, let them take action against the head of the channel," he said. "The chief minister is trying to control the media on the basis of this. It is being denied permission to enter the secretariat," he said and asked whether the media had the courage to boycott the chief minister.
He also asked why the Kerala Union of Working Journalists ( KUWJ) was not protesting against this. Referring to the CPI ministers convening a parallel cabinet meeting, he said it was a constitutional crisis. Replying to queries, he said the UDF was not holding discussions with the Kerala Congress (M) for its entry to the UDF.
