Thiruvananthapuram: CPI(M) activists protest for resignation of Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy in the wake of bribery allegation by the prime accused in the solar scam today turned violent.
Police had to use tear gas shells and batons to quell the protest. The protestors, who assembled in front of the state secretariat, threw stones at the police and tried to break the police cordon in the front of the secretariat.
The agitators raised slogans demanding resignation of Chandy and moved towards the Cantonment gate of the secretariat when police used tear gas shells and water cannons. CPI(M) leader and MLA V Sivankutty led the protest. Prime accused in the solar case, Saritha S Nair, had on Wednesday targeted Chandy and Power Minister Aryadan Mohammed while deposing before the Justice Sivarajan Commission in Kochi and had alleged that she had paid bribes to the tune of Rs 1.90 crore to a close aide of the Chief Minister and Rs 40 lakh to Mohammed.
CPI Demands Resignation of Oommen Chandy
The Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of India has issued the following statement to the Press today.
In view of a FIR filed against him in Solar scam case and after the exposure of corruption of him and his two ministers we believe that he has no moral right to continue in office.
CPI demands immediate resignation of Oommen Chandy from the post of Chief Minister of Kerala. Law should take its own course.