Going to Delhi to protest, not for meeting: CPI(M) chief M V Govindan
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CPI(M) Kerala state secretary M V Govindan, on Friday, said that the February 8 event at Jantar Mantar in Delhi, led by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his entire cabinet besides lawmakers is not a meeting, but a protest against the Union government's "wrong attitude" and neglect towards the state.
The Chief Minister and his team from Kerala will march from the Kerala House to Jantar Mantar and stage a sit-in protest.
Govindan was peeved after the media here reported that the initially planned protest had been changed to a meeting.
Adding insult to injury for the CPI-M, the Congress-led opposition criticized CM Vijayan and his cabinet, insinuating that the change from protests to a meeting stemmed from fear of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The media derived this conclusion from a letter CM Vijayan had written to his counterparts in Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Odisha, Punjab, and Delhi, as well as former Chief Ministers Sharad Pawar and Farooq Abdullah, and his son Omar Abdullah, that it was a meeting against the dilution of federal principles by the Modi government.
"It’s not a meeting but it’s a protest," Govindan told the media, adding that when the protest will be staged in Delhi, all across Kerala, Left Front activists will stage protests expressing solidarity with the Delhi protesters.
Recently several state ministers and even CM Vijayan have slammed the Centre for its "anti-Kerala attitude", which is going to be the highlight of the Delhi show.
The ruling CPI(M) had on Friday also came down heavily on Governor Khan, for quickly concluding the government’s customary policy address in the Assembly, taking only two minutes.
