THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in the wake of the continued political violence in the state. “Pinarayi Vijayan is a big zero and DGP Loknath Behera is no better,” he said inaugurating the UDF’s picketing in front of the secretariat against custodial deaths and the murders that happened in Mahe on Monday night.
The UDF organised state-wide agitations in which hundreds of workers from different Assembly constituencies took part and courted arrest. Among those arrested and later released were Mr Shashi Tharoor MP and Mr V. S. Sivakumar MLA. Mr Chennithala maintained that Mr Vijayan lacked the moral right to continue in office. Two more people belonging to CPM and RSS have been killed even before the murder of Youth Congress worker S. P. Shuhaib had faded from public memory, he said.
“Pinarayi has proved himself to be a big zero. If he doesn’t know how to govern the state, he should step down. Never before has Kerala seen such a disgraceful rule. The two killer parties, CPM and BJP, have become the bane of Kerala,” he said. He asked them to lay down their arms and restore peace. The latest killings should be the last, he said and added that in the Varapuzha custodial death incident, the LDF government was trying to hush up the case. “Kerala is undergoing difficult times. So far, only four policemen have been implicated in the Varapuzha case. The CM is yet to visit the house of the victim, Sreejith. There is no point in party secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan visiting his house,” he added.
