Kerala assembly Tuesday witnessed an opposition assault on the LDF government over accusations of state cops shielding a ruling party MLA, A N Shamsheer, despite being named a prime accused in his own assault case by CPM rebel C O T Naseer.
Former CPM leader Naseer had embarrassed the ruling CPM by contesting against party’s official candidate P Jayarajan in Vatakara parliamentary constituency in north Kerala. Naseer was attacked on May 19 in Thalassery (Kannur district), four days before the election results.
CCTV visuals of the attack - showing a group of people hacking Naseer with swords and trying to run him over with a bike – had surfaced on social media two days ago.
Naseer had named CPI(M) legislator A N Shamseer as the prime accused behind the attack but his name was not included in the first information report and cops were attempting to hush up the case, Congress-led opposition alleged.