Thiruvananthapuram: The BJP state leadership has decided to rally behind general secretary K. Surendran who is lodged in the Kottarakkara sub-jail. A core committee meeting held in Kochi on Friday rubbished the rumours that state president P. S. Sreedharan Pillai was not keen on securing bail for Mr Surendran.
Mr Pillai and and general secretary M. T. Ramesh will visit Mr K. Surendran's family in Kozhikode on Sunday.
It was on November 17 that Mr Surendran was initially taken into preventive custody after he attempted to enter Sabarimala through the Nilackal check-post. Though Mr Surendran later secured bail, he was named as an accused in a non-bailable case registered on November 6 by Sannid-hanam police for attacking a woman, Lalitha, 52, who had come to Sabarimala temple.
Mr Sreedharan Pillai and former BJP state president P. K. Krishnadas visited Mr Surendran at Kottarak-ara sub-jail on Saturday.
“The BJP state leadership had apprised party national president Amit Shah about the denial of bail to Surendran. Several false cases have been slapped against Surendran”, Mr Krishnadas told this newspaper.
Mr Surendran’s family at Ulliyeri in Kozhikode comprises wife K. Sheeba and two children, civil service aspirant K. S. Harikrishnan and Plus-One student K. S. Gayatri Devi.
A party source told Deccan Chronicle that a few days ago 400 people had visited Mr Surendran in the jail.
“As an undertrial, visitors can meet Suren-dran. But with a ban on mobile phone, Surend-ran is yet to speak to his family members,” said the source.
Meanwhile, union minister Pon Radhakrishnan will give a complaint to Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Maha-jan against SP Yatish Chandra’s behaviour at Sabarimala.
A delegation comprising MPs and MLAs from Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telengana will reach Nilackal in the coming days.
