Amidst the continuing row between the ruling Left in Kerala and the Governor, the state witnessed dramatic scenes on Monday with Arif Mohammed Khan taking to the streets to work together with individuals, whereas CPI(M)’s scholar outfit SFI protested in opposition to him and burnt his effigy in schools throughout the southern state.
At the identical time, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan questioned the way in which Khan carried out himself and mentioned that his authorities could contemplate approaching the Union Government looking for the recall of the Governor.
Incensed by the SFI protests and Vijayan’s feedback a day in the past that the Governor was making provocative statements to destroy peace in the state, Khan launched a scathing assault in opposition to them by calling them “bullies”. In a veiled reference to the CM, the Governor additionally mentioned that Vijayan was behind the violence in the north Kerala district of Kannur.
Khan additionally referred to the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) as a “criminal organisation” and its activists as “criminals and goondas hired by the CM”.
The Governor, earlier in the day, mentioned he can’t be frightened by the CM or the SFI and to show the identical he visited the busy S M Street market space, additionally identified as the ‘mithai avenue’ well-known for sweets, in Kozhikode metropolis.
He interacted with individuals of all ages, together with college kids, in and across the crowded market space for a few hours, posed for images with them, thanked everybody for his or her love and affection after which returned to his visitor home on the Calicut University in Malappuram district the place SFI activists had been gathered in a whole lot with black balloons, banners, placards and carrying t-shirts demanding that he return.
Police, deployed in massive numbers on the college, had put up barricades stopping the SFI activists from approaching the visitor home, however regardless of that, a few of the protestors managed to breach the safety set-up and acquired near the place Khan was staying earlier than being taken into custody and faraway from the world.
Subsequently, Khan went to an occasion throughout the college campus and there he advised the media that nobody protested in opposition to him when he was strolling on the streets of Kozhikode metropolis.
He additionally alleged that the CM despatched them there beneath police safety.
“They are goondas and not students. SFI is an organisation of goondas,” he alleged. When a reporter requested him why he was upsetting the scholars, Khan advised him to “get lost”. After the occasion, he once more met the media and reiterated that SFI activists had been criminals.
“Those who want to attack you, hurt you, are not protestors. They are out-and-out criminals hired by the CM. They are trying to frighten me as their control over the universities has gone due to the Supreme Court verdict,” Khan contended.
He additionally mentioned that he took to the streets to search out out who was protesting in opposition to him.
“But, no one was protesting. People showered me with love and affection. It is the vested interests that are milking the universities. There cannot be more abuse of universities than what this CM and his government has done,” Khan mentioned.
On being requested if there was any scope for a truce between him and the federal government, Khan mentioned, “Law is there. Act accordingly.”
He mentioned that when the apex court docket has made it clear that the schools’ features come beneath the purview of the Chancellor, the federal government mustn’t intrude in that and he won’t be interfering in their issues.
“So, where is the question of truce? Where is the conflict?” he requested.
When reporters requested him in regards to the legislation and order scenario in the state, Khan reiterated the reward he had showered on the police earlier in the day and mentioned that the power was not being allowed to discharge its duties by the CM.
“I sympathise with them (police),” he mentioned.
Khan additionally mentioned that the state seemed to be “in the grip of a financial emergency” as the Chief Secretary had advised the Kerala High Court that the federal government was not in a place to honour the monetary ensures given by it.
The SFI, which has been protesting in opposition to Khan throughout the state, mentioned its agitation wouldn’t finish anytime quickly, and it could proceed in the approaching days.
SFI state secretary P M Arsho mentioned that Khan will face the warmth of their protests until the time he enters the gates of the Raj Bhavan.
Arsho additionally accused Khan of being answerable for the demise of a person who had collapsed whereas the Governor was visiting the market space and allegedly couldn’t be rushed to a hospital in time due to the group of individuals and safety personnel there.
“From being an agent of the Sangh Parivar, he has become responsible for the death of a man due to his actions,” Arsho alleged.
After protesting outdoors the visitor home for just a few hours, the SFI activists held a march and had been joined by the employees of the CPI(M).
Earlier in the day, Vijayan, whereas addressing the media in Kollam district as a part of the continuing Nava Kerala Sadas, mentioned Khan was attempting to disrupt the peaceable environment in the state by creating deliberate provocation.
Khan, in the meantime, claimed that his latest controversial remarks concerning Kannur had been distorted by the CM.
“Who was the man behind the violence in Kannur? The same man who instigated violence in Kannur, he thought the way he was able to frighten the people there, he will be able to frighten me,” he mentioned in a vieled reference to the CM.
He additionally clarified that what he had mentioned about Kannur was not in regards to the place or the individuals residing there.
The clarification comes in the wake of Vijayan, on Sunday, hitting out on the Governor over his Kannur remarks by saying it was a spot that has a outstanding house in the historical past of this nation’s freedom battle.
On Saturday, addressing the media at Calicut University, Khan had alleged that the CM was used to scaring individuals as a result of he comes from Kannur which has a bloody historical past of killing one another.
Kerala in the previous couple of days has witnessed dramatic scenes and verbal duels between the Governor on one aspect and the CM and the SFI on the opposite over the difficulty of appointments made by Khan to the senate of some universities in the state.
(With inputs from company)
