THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress on Friday hit out at Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan over allegations by senior journalist G. Sakthidharan that he is under the control of ‘Kitchen Cabinet’ who is running the government in the coastal state.
Sakthidharan, in a post on his Facebook page, claimed that, “Vijayan is now under the control of a kitchen cabinet consisting of three or four people who now run the show, on account of his ill-health”.
Part of the editorial team of CPI-M party mouthpiece Deshabhimani, Sakthidharan left it many years back after serving it at a top post. While working with the newspaper, the journalist was very close to most of the stalwarts of CPI-M.
Taking up the allegations, Leader of Opposition in the Assembly V.D. Satheesan also said that a group in Vijayan’s office controls everything. It is a shame that when very grave allegations have surfaced against Vijayan, the police are being used to target the opposition leaders, he added.
“Just look into what Sakthidharan has written, but there is no probe about it. Only the opposition leaders are being haunted and hunted. This is the double standard of Vijayan,” he said. (IANS)
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