Alappuzha, Feb. 26 -- Opposition Leader in Kerala Assembly VD Satheesan on Thursday claimed that allegations of an attack on health minister Veena George at the Kannur Railway Station were a "deliberate lie".

He added that Kerala Students Union activists "did not go near the minister" and that Railway Police have also checked CCTV footage and did not find any evidence of the attack.

"Top CPM leaders, including the Chief Minister, have unleashed a deliberate lie that KSU workers attacked the Health Minister, and on that false pretext, widespread violence has been carried out across the state. Every journalist, police officer, and railway police personnel present know that not a single protester even went near the Minister. Only four or f...