No one interfered for calling off protests: Pinarayi & Oomman Chandy

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said that no understanding had been reached with the Left Democratic Front on ending its Secretariat siege CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan has on Thursday said that no mediators had intervened in calling off the Secretariat siege led by the LDF. Those who are citing the name of industrialist M A Yousaf Ali might be his PROs, he said. K Surendran is assuming the role of Yousaf Ali's PRO and is actually praising him by making such comments, Pinarayi insisted and added that he has no reply to those who have rented out their tongue to others.

Meanwhile the CPM central leadership has announced that the LDF agitation was not withdrawn through a mutual understanding. A mutual agreement between the UDF and the LDF is never possible in Kerala, said CPM Politburo member, S. Ramachandran Pillai, in Delhi. The agitation will be successful only if it realizes its aim of making Chief Minister Oommen Chandy resign. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly, Kodiyeri Balakriishan, said that people are wishing for the chief minister's resignation and the will continue till that end it met. CPI state secretary, Panyan Raveendran, in his statement, has made it clear that his party won't agree to a probe that would exclude the CM's office from it.