Thiruvananthapuram:
A Congress chief has been detained after he blocked his get together colleague and Kerala Chief Minister VD Satheesan’s convoy whereas he was on his strategy to attend an occasion in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday.
A video reveals a bunch of individuals stopping Satheesan’s convoy, which was on its strategy to Chempazhanthy to attend an occasion marking the start anniversary of social reformer Sree Narayana Guru. The group had additionally organised a Sree Narayana Guru occasion at Chenthi and needed Satheesan to attend the perform.
After about 30 seconds, Satheesan stepped out of the automobile and was seen talking to Anil Kumar, a Thiruvananthapuram District Congress Committee (DCC) chief. The 2 have been then seen partaking in a heated alternate. A couple of minutes later, Satheesan returned to his automobile and left.
Satheesan’s workplace maintained that the Chenthi occasion was not a part of his official schedule.
The police registered a case towards Kumar, alias Chenthi Ani, below provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), together with wrongful restraint, prison intimidation and use of power to impede a public servant from discharging official duties.
“The accused allegedly confronted the chief minister in an aggressive method and loudly questioned him as to why he was not attending the occasion regardless of it being an accepted programme. When requested to chorus from being aggressive, the accused allegedly threatened, What’s going to you do if I get offended?, thereby publicly insulting the CM and obstructing the official duties of police personnel accompanying the convoy,” the FIR mentioned.
Kumar, nevertheless, denied blocking the chief minister’s automobile and criticised Satheesan’s conduct through the confrontation, saying he behaved like “faculty college students combating”.
“It’s a part of the get together’s group politics. Groupism is the issue,” he instructed reporters when he was taken to hospital for a medical examination.
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The organisers of the Chenthi occasion, together with Congress staff, later additionally launched {a photograph} of themselves assembly Satheesan just a few months again on the Secretariat to ask him to the capabilities.
DCC member Suhail Shajahan additionally expressed his protest towards the arrest.
“No matter which group or faction they belong to, as an individual, I’m personally saddened to see a Congress employee like Anil, who risked his life for the get together and labored tirelessly for it, get arrested on this method,” he instructed reporters after assembly him on the Sreekaryam police station.
He mentioned he didn’t see Kumar behaving disrespectfully in direction of the chief minister.
Shajahan additionally denied that Kumar and his supporters had blocked Satheesan’s automobile.
“No autos have been blocked. They got here to welcome the chief minister. Hundreds of staff have been there, together with girls. Everybody was left upset,” he mentioned.
