Learn to respect your mother: Vijayan to IUML

Kannur: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday lashed out at the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) for targetting his family during a recent rally to protest his government’s Waqf Board policy, asking its leadership to learn to respect one’s mother and sister.

Hitting out at the IUML at the CPM meeting here for the alleged “uncivilised” slogans and remarks raised in its rally, the CM said inculcating culture should begin in the family. Sharply reacting to the slogans raised in the Muslim League rally saying that Vijayan’s late father Mundayail Koran was a toddy tapper and Kerala was not gifted as a dowry to him, the CM sought to know why they dragged his late father’s name in connection with the Waqf issue. “I don’t understand why you drag the name of my poor father who died when I was a high school student in connection with the Waqf Board issue? What wrong did he commit against you?,” Vijayan said. “You should know how to respect your mother and your sister. Inculcating culture should begin in the family”, Vijayan said. —(PTI)