Kerala - Alappuzha   

VS remark on Central forces flayed

ALAPPUZHA: Leader of a faction of the Janata Dal (S), M.P. Veerendrakumar, has said that Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan should have checked all facts properly before stating that the Central forces would sit in the barracks during the Kannur Assembly bypolls.

He said criminalisation of politics in Kannur was a known fact. The Election Commission, taking such facts and the present situation into consideration, had sent the forces to ensure free and fair election.

Earlier, the Janata Dal leader decried the proposed restrictions on provision of government matters to the media, stating that communist governments during the times of A.K. Gopalan or E.M.S. Namboodiripad had never attempted to curb media freedom.

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