Congress Leader Points to Kerala CM's Changing Colours

VD Satheesan said Vijayan is trying to make the Jamaat-e-Islami issue controversial to divert attention from people's problems

- STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE

Senior Congress leader and Opposition leader in the Kerala Assembly, VD Satheesan, on Sunday alleged that state Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is changing colours like a chameleon while speaking about his party's relationship with Jamaat-e-Islami.

Addressing a press conference in Nilambur on Sunday, Satheesan said Chief Minister Vijayan is trying to make the Jamaat-e-Islami issue controversial so that people's problems are not discussed among the voters in Nilambur.

He said that while the Congress-led UDF is seeking votes in Nilambur by raising problems and woes being experienced by the people, the CPI-M-led LDF campaign is concentrating on communalism. "The UDF is seeking votes by raising the issues of the people—their problems and woes. But the CPI-M is talking about communalism in the campaign," Satheesan said.