Kerala’s main opposition Congress on Sunday dubbed Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan a “sadist”, “coward”, “arrogant” and “psychopath” and accused him of turning the state into a “land of goondas”.
Referring to the alleged use of water cannons and tear gas shells against senior Congress leaders in Kerala, including MPs and MLAs, who were protesting outside the DGP’s office in Thiruvananthapuram, AICC general secretary K C Venugopal blamed the CM for the same.
Venugopal, in a statement, said that the police action and the assault of Youth Congress (YC) and Kerala Students’ Union (KSU) workers show that Vijayan was enjoying the violence.
“The chief minister has a sadistic face. He is responsible for Kerala turning into a goonda raj state,” he said.
The AICC general secretary also questioned how the CM’s gunman was still accompanying him after being booked for beating up YC-KSU activists.
“What Narendra Modi is doing in Delhi, Vijayan is replicating in Kerala,” he alleged.
Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) chief K Sudhakaran, who was hospitalised a day ago due to the effects of the tear gas shells that fell near the stage where he and other party leaders were standing, called Vijayan a “psychopath”.
“He (CM) is a psychopath. Only a psychopath can act the way he has. This CM and the government are settling personal scores,” the KPCC chief alleged.
Senior Congress leaders in Kerala, including senior MPs and MLAs, suffered from suffocation and some were even hospitalised after police fired tear gas shells.
The KPCC chief said that a couple of shells fell under the vehicle on top of which the stage was set and had it exploded, it would have been the end of the senior Congress leaders standing atop it.
Sudhakaran also said that neither he nor the Congress leaders were scared by the case lodged against them.
Kerala Police on Saturday registered a case against Sudhakaran, Leader of Opposition in the assembly V D Satheesan and senior Congress leaders, including MP Shashi Tharoor, in connection with the violence in Thiruvananthapuram during the party’s march to the DGP office.The case was registered by police against Congress MPs, MLAs, leaders and party workers who took part in the protest under various provisions of the IPC, including that of rioting, obstructing roads and preventing public servants from performing their duties.