Nothing laudable: VS

Thiruvananthapuram: Former chief minister V S Achuthanandan has flayed Alphons

Kannanthanam

for joining with ‘fascist forces’.

He said in a statement issued here on Sunday that Kannanthanam joining the NDA ministry was the “biggest possible degeneration that can happen to a left fellow traveler.” Achuthanandan, who is the chairman of state administrative reforms commission, said there was nothing laudable in Kannanthanam becoming a minister, in an apparent dig at chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who congratulated Kannanthanam and hosted a lunch for him. tnn