#IntolerantCPM : Former Ambassador T P Sreenivasan attacked by SFI Goons

Thiruvananthapuram: Former Indian diplomat and vice chairman of Kerala State Higher Education Council TP Sreenivasan was manhandled by SFI goons while he was in Kovalam, Thiruvananthapuram. Sreenivasan had come to the state capital city to take part in Global Education Meet, an educational event. The entire incident has been caught on mobile, where the SFI activists were seen slapping and high-handedly shoving  Sreenivasan. Terming the incident as “shocking”, BJP state president Kummanam Rajashekharan said that at it was even more shocking to see “Marxist leaders justify such violence.”

SFI attack on @sreeniv is shocking.More shocking is the way #IntolerantCPM leaders justify such violence.https://t.co/gfrO5tfdgA

— Kummanam Rajasekharan (Modi Ka Parivar) (@Kummanam) January 29, 2016

TP Sreenivasan, who was making his way towards the car was slapped on his face. Video footages showed him staggering and falling down. He is said to have taken refuge in a friend’s house nearby.

According to Sreenivasan,  Kerala police personnel were not quick to intervene in the matter, to shield him and safeguard him from agitating students.

SFI activists seized the opportunity of man handling an officer from the centre under the pretext of allegations that “Global Education Meet is an attempt to corporatize educational sector
and pave the way for foreign universities to set foot in India”. The Marxists also made up their own crooked theory of “the police intentionally having made Sreenivasan stand in front of the SFI activists to foment trouble.”

Sreenivasan shot back, asking if he would deliberately put “knowingly put himself into any kind of risk” and asserted that “any policy decision comes into effect only with Centre’s consent.”

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