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Kerala CM admits knowing MDMA case youths, denies Meta censorship
Kerala Chief Minister VD Satheesan on Thursday admitted he personally knows Muhammad Hussain and Abdul Salam, two youths arrested with MDMA. Hussain is a Youth Congress activist, said Satheesan, but he denied…
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Kerala Chief Minister VD Satheesan on Thursday admitted he personally knows Muhammad Hussain and Abdul Salam, two youths arrested with MDMA. Hussain is a Youth Congress activist, said Satheesan, but he denied that Hussain worked on his social media team. Satheesan said he first met Hussain after the youth was injured in a police lathi charge during the opposition LDF government’s Nava Kerala Sadas.
Satheesan also rejected Leader of the Opposition Pinarayi Vijayan’s charge that his office asked Meta to remove critical news reports. He said his only request to Meta was to restore the CMO Kerala’s Instagram account, which has been suspended for two months. Satheesan added he is ready to write to Meta asking it not to remove posts critical of him.
The Indian Opinion
The opposition in Kerala has seized on the drug-arrest link to paint the Chief Minister as complicit, but Satheesan's detailed account, meeting a youth injured in a police lathi charge, is a plausible explanation, not an admission of guilt. The Meta censorship charge, meanwhile, rests on thin evidence: a single Instagram account restoration request. The real test is not who knows whom, but whether the government will, as Satheesan offered, formally ask Meta to stop removing posts critical of it. Will the opposition produce a direct request from the CM's office to Meta? That would settle the row.
Source: english.mathrubhumi.com
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