Mother of the person who threw rocks at former Kerala CM Chandy pays for his son’s election security

In a touching act, the mother of a former CPI(M) politician who injured the late former chief minister Oommen Chandy in 2013 after throwing stones at his official car has paid the security deposit on his behalf in the impending Puthuppally by-election in Kerala.

In Puthuppally, which his father represented for 53 years, Chandy Oommen, the dead former CM’s son, is running for Congress.

 

On the last day for submitting nomination papers for the bypoll, Amina Beevi, the mother of C.O.T. Nazir from Kannur, used a digital payment app to send Chandy 10,000 to be placed as security. I gave him (Chandy) the money in the name of love, not in the name of politics, she subsequently told reporters. Nazir has always shown the compassion and love I have instilled in him. After the stone-pelting incident, Nazir had a few meetings with Oommen Chandy and always said that the former CM treated him well.

 

She remarked, “I shall hope that Chandy Oommen wins.

 

After submitting his nomination, Oommen expressed his thanks to Nazir and his mother for the kind gesture.

 

She was eager to provide the cash right away, but she informed me that she was unable to do so owing to a medical condition. I appreciate the kindness of her and her kid,” he remarked.

 

“Hatred and retaliation are unnecessary. We need such politics in our nation, as Rahul Gandhi suggested establishing a store of love. There is no space for holding grudges against anybody. There should be no other chief minister of a state who has to deal with being stoned. No political leader ought to experience harassment as my father did, he said.

 

Veteran Congressman and then-CM Oommen Chandy was in Kannur on October 27, 2013, when a CPI(M) demonstration against him for the solar crisis descended into violence and rocks were thrown at his official car. Chandy sustained injuries to his face, knees, and chest during the assault, which also caused the car’s windows to break. Nazir, a CPI(M) employee at the time who was subsequently dismissed from the organization in 2014, was found guilty of participating in the assault and given a two-year jail term by a Kannur municipal court.

 

Years after the event, Nazir apologized to the previous chief minister in Thalassery.