Thiruvananthapuram – Union Minister Amit Shah will not attend this year’s Nehru Trophy boat race as the chief guest. It is clear that Alappuzha will not be included in the Union Home Minister’s visit list. It is indicated that he did not participate due to security reasons. The report that Amit Shah will not come comes amid a political controversy regarding the state government’s invitation to the boat race.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has sent a letter inviting Amit Shah, who will attend the Inter-State Council meeting in Kovalam on September 3, to watch the Nehru Trophy boat race. Confirming this, the Chief Minister’s office had unofficially explained that all the chief guests arriving in Kovalam have been invited.
At the same time, the incident became a political controversy when various opposition leaders came out with strong criticism against the invitation of Amit Shah. Opposition leader V.D. said that there is an unholy alliance between the Chief Minister and Amit Shah. Satheesan had alleged. Satheesan also pointed out that the CPM leaders were the ones who called MP NK Premachandran a Sanghi and accused him of inviting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the inauguration of the Kollam bypass just before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Amit Shah was the home minister of Gujarat when the Bilkis Banu incident took place. When it is being discussed at the national level that people were acquitted in Bilkis Banu’s case, what is behind calling Kerala Chief Minister Amit Shah? Is the Lavlin case going to be taken up by the Supreme Court or is it a gold smuggling case? “Antagonism to the BJP during the day and discussion with the BJP leaders at night has been going on in Kerala for a long time,” Satheesan alleged.
K.Muralidharan MP’s response was that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is licking BJP’s shoes. VT Balram also posted on Facebook mocking Amit Shah’s invitation as ‘natural’.
Meanwhile, appointed CPM State Secretary MV Govindan dismissed the criticism against Amit Shah’s invitation to the Nehru Trophy boat race. No wonder Amit Shah is participating in boating. It is wrong to say that the central ruler should not be seen or spoken to. LDF will work in federal system not on political stand. In response to the criticism, MV Govindan said that the Lavlin case is not in the BJP court but in the Supreme Court.
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