Thiruvananthapuram, 18 December (H.S): The day will not be far off when Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan will describe the chief minister and members of his council of ministers as ?goondas?. The verbal attacks launched by the chief minister and his sidekicks in the government do not augur well for Kerala as well as political parties in the State.
During his Cabinet Bus ride across the State at the expense of the public exchequer, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan termed the Governor as an uncouth and uncultured element despite the former?s uncivilized approach to the people of the State. ?Arif Mohammed Khan is an uncivilized person and unsuitable to occupy the Governor?s chair in a State like Kerala,? said Vijayan in his public speeches in the Alappuzha district. Giving him company in humiliating the Governor was Vijayan?s new son-in-law Mohammed Riyaz, the de facto number two in the council of ministers.
The chief minister blamed the Governor for everything including the massive floods that ravaged the State in 2018. ?The State is in a financial mess only because of Governor Arif Mohammed Khan?s decision not to sign the legislation enacted by the Kerala Government. He is acting as a Sanghi,? said Vijayan who always claims that he is least bothered about the swords, daggers and lathis of the RSS.
Late Sunday evening, the Governor came out of the Calicut University Guest House and asked the police authorities to remove the banners put up by the SFI activists depicting him as an RSS agent. Though the police half-heartedly removed the banners, the volunteers of the SFI returned late at night and put up more banners, some of them with unprintable slogans.
A message by Raj Bhavan, Thiruvananthapuram, said that the administration in Kerala is going down the drain as the CPI-M leadership has deployed SFI goons to attack the Governor. The observation by the Governor that the SFI activists would not have resorted to such action without getting approval from the CMO.
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