October 30, 2011: A group of Democratic Youth Federation of
India (DYFI) activists on Sunday waved black flags towards State Forest
Minister KB Ganesh Kumar as a protest against his unruly remarks on Opposition
leader and CPM veteran VS Achuthanandan.
Around 30 activists waved black flags began shouting slogans
and also blocked the Minister’s vehicle passing by. Minister was on his way to
Rajamala, party sources said. The protestors also burned his effigy.
Minister while addressing a press meet opined that he
profusely regretted for his comments against the CPM veteran. He said, for a
moment, suppressed feelings got better of him as Achuthanandan had been
haunting his father and Kerala Congress (B) leader R Balakrishna Pillai (now
serving sentence in a corruption case) for the last 18 years.
Forest Minister K B Ganesh Kumar on Thursday night came
under attack from CPI (M) and its affiliated outfits for making allegedly
derogatory remarks against former Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan.
The party’s youth and student outfits DYFI and SFI came out
strongly against Kumar for his unsavoury comments against Achuthanandan at a
public meeting organised by his party Kerala Congress(B) at Pathanapuram in
Kollam district.
They said the minister would have to face ’serious
consequences’ if he refused to withdraw his fulminations against the
88-year-old leader.
They also took out a protest march at Pathanapuram, Ganesh Kumar’s Assembly seat.
They also took out a protest march at Pathanapuram, Ganesh Kumar’s Assembly seat.
In many other parts of the state, DYFI and SFI workers took
out protest marches against Kumar’s remarks.
CPI(M) women’s wing All India Democratic Women’s Association
demanded that the Chief Minister drop Kumar from the cabinet in view of his
‘uncultured attack’ on the former chief minister.
Taking exception to the language used by Kumar, senior
CPI(M) leader M A Baby said this was quite unbecoming of a public figure and unheard
of in Kerala’s tradition of cultured public debate.
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