Thiruvananthapuram: CM Pinarayi Vijayan instructs a high-level meeting to deal with the forces trying to ‘create riots and division among citizens, with iron hands’.
After the ongoing controversy over narcotics jihad, while overcoming a meeting of high-ranking officials on Thursday – Secretary of Secretary of VP, Head of the Main Secretary (Houses and Precautions) TK Jose, National Police Chief Anil Kant, ADGP (HQ) Manoj Abraham, ADGP (HQ) , ADGP (intelligence) Vinod Kumar and ADGP (law and command) Vijay Sakhare – He said that there was an accidental effort from several angles to destroy the country’s secular credentials.
Such movements must be handled, firmly, he said.
Vijayan instructs them to monitor those who also use social media to spread venomous campaigns and create shared divisions.
The instruction of the minister’s chairman has come after alleged Jihad Narcotics – the term used at first by Bishop Joseph Kallaragatt – which quickly turned into a large controversy after BJP and Congress reacted to him.
While BJP supports the bishop’s statement and even met him support offers, the Congress said that the government remained a mute audience while BJP tried to use it for political mileage.
CM has clarified that he did not support the marking of religious symbols with narcotics and that the narcotics mafia, as a whole, must be seen as a threat to the community.