Vijayan-Sudhakaran spat escalates, level serious allegations against each other
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Karnataka: The war of words between Kerala chief minister PinarayiVijayan and opposition Congress state president K Sudhakaran escalated on Saturday as the two leveled serious allegations against each other. Sudhakaran called Vijayan a “political criminal” while denying kidnapping and other charges the chief minister made against him. He said Vijayan was accused of murder. Sudhakaran added he never carried a pistol, or a bullet, like the chief minister. He was referring to a 2007 case wherein security personnel at the Chennai airport found five live cartridges of a .38-revolver in Vijayan’s laptop case. Vijayan was questioned before he was released after he gave a written explanation that the cartridges were of his licensed revolver. Sudhakaran said Vijayan should not denigrate the position he is holding by making “cheap comments” and dared him to investigate charges against him. The two belong to Kannur and were in the same college but did not see eye to eye. On Friday, Vijayan quoted a late unnamed Congress leader telling him that Sudhakaran planned to kidnap his children. Sudhakaran rejected the allegation and asked Vijayan why did not he report such a serious issue to the police.
