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Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 31: Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Tuesday alleged that Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi were involved in filing a case against him.

The Union Minister was responding to Kochi Cyber Police which filled a case a him over his remarks on the multiple blasts that happened at a prayer hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in this city on Sunday morning.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar posted on X that “So the two INDI alliance partners @RahulGandhi and @PinarayiVijayan have jointly filed a “case” against me.”

“Two of biggest appeasers in Indian politics who shamelessly appease poisonous radical violent organizations like SDPI, PFI and Hamas, whose politics have caused radicalization over decades from J&K to Punjab to Kerala and caused many innocent lives and security forces lives to be lost – trying to threaten me with a case for exposing their appeasement of Hamas.”

The Cyber Cell of Kochi Police registered the case against the Union Minister under under section 120 (o) for violating public order, section 153 (provocation for rioting) and section 153 A (promoting enmity between different groups).

The FIR says the Union Minister has made provocative remarks on social media following the blasts, hinting Palestinian group Hamas and spreading it through videos and text messages with an intention to create communal divide among people.

Meanwhile, a war of words was erupted between Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the Union Minister over the multiple blasts in Kochi. The Chief Minister criticised the Union Minister alleging that he was ‘spitting venom’ aiming to create communal divide.