LDF government neglected intelligence report: Thiruvanchoor


Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan on Tuesday turned the tables on the Opposition by presenting an intelligence report filed during Kodiyeri Balakrishnan’s tenure as Home Minister stating that that there was potential threat to the life of RMP leader T P Chandrasekharan.


 In his reply to the discussion on demands for grants for the Police and Jail departments, he said that his predecessor  Kodiyeri did not act on the sensitive  report received from the Intelligence Department. It was on November 19, 2010, that the report was filed to the Home Ministry.  The report said there was unconfirmed  information that some CPM workers from Kannur district had come twice to Onchiyam  within Chombala police station limits in Kozhikode district to attack Chandrasekharan, Onchiyam area secretary of RMP.


 However, they are learnt to have gone  back due to some failure in the attack plan, the report said.



‘’Some cadre of CPM Onchiyam area considered Chandrasekharan as their main enemy and they believed that his annihilation would result in the ruin of the RMP’’ the report said. The report also  warned of serious law and order issues in Onchiyam, Eramala and its suburbs in the event of attack on TP.


 When Thiruvanchoor rose to reply to the discussions, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan asked the Home Minister to explain why the government did not provide security to  Chandrasekharan who had intimated Union Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran, KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala and Chief Minister Oommen Chandy that he was facing threat to his life from CPM activists.  Thiruvanchoor said that the UDF Government had offered security but Chandrasekharan had declined the offer. Kodiyeri then insisted on whether the government had received any written document to prove that he rejected the offer.


Taking cue from this, Thiruvanchoor presented the intelligence report filed during Kodiyeri’s tenure.


 In spite of the repeated requests from Speaker G Karthikeyan,  Opposition members were on their feet. Opposition members  objected to the word  ‘’CPM goons’’ used by Thiruvanchoor and staged the walkout for the second time in the day.

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