Topic: Pinarayi Vijayan

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan Thursday threw shade at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for his caution to the voters that Uttar Pradesh will "become Kashmir, Kerala and Bengal if they make a mistake."

In a Facebook live video posted by Bharatiya Janata Party Kerala state spokesperson Sandeep Vachaspati on Tuesday, the saffron party workers were heard raising murderous slogans against Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan.

Thousands of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML)'s cadres joined a massive protest rally on Kozhikode beach on Thursday against the decision of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government to hand over Waqf Board appointments to the Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC).

On Friday, VN Vasavan, minister for Cooperation and Registration in Pinarayi Vijayan cabinet and Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader visited Pala Bishop Joseph Kallarangatt, who had made the anti-Muslim 'narcotic jihad' speech, and posted an appraisal Facebook post calling the bishop "scholarly" and accusing the ones protesting against him as "terrorists."

Out of the 835 cases registered against activists and politicians who protested Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register of Citizens in the state, the government has only withdrawn two cases, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said while replying to an Opposition MLA’s query in the legislative assembly. 

Marking their opposition to the CPI(M) led government’s decision to rejig the minority scholarship ratio, an umbrella body of Muslim organisations in Kerala on Sunday has constituted a Sachar Samrakshana Samithi (roughly translates as Save Sachar [Sachar Commission] Committee).