Kozhikode. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday reminded Rahul Gandhi that his grandmother Indira Gandhi had jailed Vijayan for one and a half years during the Emergency. Rahul Gandhi had asked why the BJP government at the Center is not taking action against the CPI (M) leader? As he did with other opposition chief ministers. After this, at an election rally in Kozhikode, Vijayan said that ‘Rahul is worried as to why the Kerala Chief Minister is not being interrogated and why he is not being detained… It was your grandmother Indira Gandhi who informed us about a case. Was put in jail for one and a half years. When he repressed the entire country during the Emergency.
At a rally in Kannur on Thursday, Rahul Gandhi had said that ‘two Chief Ministers are in jail. How is this not happening with the Chief Minister of Kerala? I am attacking BJP 24 hours and the Chief Minister of Kerala is attacking me 24 hours. This is a bit surprising. The Congress has alleged that Vijayan is not criticizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi because of the probe by central agencies into the illegal payment scam in his daughter Veena’s IT firm and the funds scam in a cooperative bank in Thrissur.
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In response, Vijayan said that he was ‘never afraid of any investigation or agency’. Rahul is being criticized for his stance on CAA. Why were you away from the anti-CAA protest? Vijayan said that Congress leaders were not among those arrested in Delhi in connection with the protest. He also said that Rahul had been ‘called a name in the past’ and he should not ‘create a situation which shows that you have not changed’.
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Tags: Emergency 1975, Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan, Rahul Gandhi
FIRST PUBLISHED: April 19, 2024, 23:03 IST