THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Concluding that leaders PC George and Shone George overstepped their attacks on the Catholic Church, the BJP has asked the father-son duo to stop making any further public comments on the matter.
The BJP state committee made the assessment after a detailed analysis of the April 9 assembly elections in Kerala and the controversies that erupted in the run-up to and after the elections. Based on this, the party’s core committee, which met online on Monday night, gave the directive to the duo. Party insiders said Shone also had to explain his remarks before the core committee. It was BJP state general secretary and NDA candidate in Tiruvalla Anoop Antony who raised the issue. Both PC George and Shone are NDA candidates in Poonjar and Pala constituencies, respectively.
Monday’s meeting also saw strong remarks from party state vice-president K Soman over the leaked audio clip of NDA’s Palakkad candidate Sobha Surendran, who is embroiled in the ‘cash for votes’ controversy.
In the clip, Sobha is heard talking to now-suspended BJP Alappuzha district vice-president Bindu Vinayakumar and making derogatory comments about both him and Soman.
