M V Jayarajan attacks CM with ‘stinker’ usage

Kozhikode: CPI-M leaders’ wrong usage of words’ against the party’s political foes has always caused turbulence with even the party cadres dissenting such usages citing the negative impact it makes among the people. Following such issues, the party had also stressed the need for careful usage of words.

Some of the leaders, however, seem unfazed by such warning with the latest being M V Jayarajan, who is a CPI-M state committee member.

Addressing partymen at a programme at Udma in Kasargod on Tuesday, Jayarajan unleashed a verbal attack at Chief Minister Oommen Chandy which also included a nasty remark ‘paranari,’ loosely translated as ‘stinker.’

Referring to the defects of the Chandy government, Jayarajan said there was no ‘stinker’ chief minister as Oommen Chandy in the history of the State.

The Marxist veteran, however, backtracked when the remark became controversial. “I didn’t mean it to the Chief Minister individually. I was mentioning the flaws of his governance. I regret if he has felt the other way,” he said.

Over an offensive remark made against judges and the judiciary earlier, the High Court had sentenced Jayarajan to six months imprisonment for contempt of court.

In the recent past, CPI-M state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan also landed in trouble for hurling the ‘stinker’ usage at RSP leader N K Premachandran MP.