Thiruvananthapuram: The Communist Party of India (CPI) on Wednesday boycotted the weekly Cabinet meeting, apparently to pressurize Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to ask Transport Minister Thomas Chandy to resign from the post over land encroachment case.
The CPI has been demanding Chandy to resign from his post in wake of the ongoing case.
The Chief Minister confirmed that the CPI ministers did not attend the cabinet meeting. "Minister Chandrasekharan handed over a letter that it was their party's decision to not attend the meeting, which Thomas Chandy is attending."
He also said that CPI should have never done that as “Thomas Chandy had the right to attend the meeting.”
Chandy is alleged to have got a road constructed through government-owned land and levelled water bodies to facilitate easier access to his Lake Palace Resort located near the Punnamada Lake in Alappuzha.
Vijayan had earlier said the government would take an appropriate decision after considering the High Court's observation in the land encroachment case involving Thomas Chandy.