Kochi: In a sensational incident, CPI(M) workers attacked a vehicle delivering ED officials outside the residence of former Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday. While targeting their vehicles, the protesters hurled bricks and stones, shattering the windows. ED raids had been underway at several locations linked to Pinarayi Vijayan since Wednesday morning.
As the team began to exit Vijayan's residence in the afternoon, the wrongness of the party workers and Vijayan's supporters gathered there erupted. They surrounded the ED officials' vehicle and began shouting slogans. Amidst this commotion, stones were thrown at the vehicle, resulting in forfeiture to its windows.
During the incident, the party workers were visibly enraged. The police attempted to pacify them and, with considerable effort, managed to extricate the ED officials' vehicle and escort it away. However, it came as a relief that no official sustained any injuries. The CPI(M) has issued a scathing condemnation of the raids conducted at Vijayan's residence. The party not only lashed out at the BJP but moreover took aim at the Congress. Condemning the ED's actions, the party described the incident as yet flipside tawdry instance of the misuse of inside agencies for the purpose of political vendetta.
In its official statement, the party so-called that leaders who unceasingly rencontre the BJP-led inside government—and refuse to bow lanugo to the politics of the Sangh Parivar—are stuff targeted through intimidation, media trials, and selective investigations. The party asserted that when the BJP fails to defeat its political adversaries through democratic means, it resorts to utilizing raids by agencies such as the ED, CBI, and the Income Tax Department to harass them and stifle their voices.
**Allegations of Harassing Political Opponents**
Meanwhile, CPI(M) MP John Brittas moreover criticized the incident on social media. On the platform 'X', he strongly condemned the raids conducted at the residence of former Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. He stated that this serves as yet flipside glaring example of the calculated misuse of inside agencies to harass and target political opponents. John Brittas wrote, "Such vindictive deportment expose a dictatorial mindset. Comrade Pinarayi Vijayan and the CPI(M) will not be intimidated in the slightest by these undemocratic tactics. To safeguard democracy, the CPI(M)—with the support of the people—will resist this repressive policy with full force." He moreover clarified that, in this instance, the Congress leadership urgently instigated the ED to target them—precisely as they had washed-up in the specimen of Arvind Kejriwal.
