Inducting tainted leader will be insult to women: Ramesh Chennithala

Kottayam: Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala on  Thursday said that  taking  back  NCP leader A.K. Saseendran in the state cabinet would be an insult to the women and the state. "The chief minister has the right to induct Saseendran as a minister, but the  LDF and the CPM should stop preaching  morality," he told reporters here.  Mr Saseendran may have been trapped by the channel activists. However, everyone had listened to the indecent language used by him, he said. 

"Saseendran didn't deny  the words  uttered by him.  He resigned after his obscene language became public and he lost the decency of a political worker,"  Mr Chennithala said. "The judicial commission recommendation to  cancel  the licence  of the Mangalam TV is unwarranted. If the channel is culpable,  let them take action against the head of the channel," he said. "The chief minister is trying to control  the media  on the basis of this. It is being denied   permission to enter the secretariat,"  he said and asked whether the media had  the courage to boycott the chief minister.

He also asked why the Kerala Union of Working Journalists ( KUWJ) was not protesting against this. Referring to the CPI ministers convening a parallel cabinet meeting, he said  it was a constitutional crisis. Replying to queries, he said  the UDF  was  not holding discussions with the Kerala Congress (M) for its  entry to the UDF.