Thiruvananthapuram, April 4 -- Keralam Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that Rahul Gandhi's allegation that Keralam has a Chief Minister who works alongside those who attacked nuns in Chhattisgarh is nothing but ignorance and excessive rhetoric.

Vijayan said, "Has Rahul Gandhi forgotten that the legal provisions used by BJP governments to unjustly arrest people, including nuns, were originally contributions of the Congress? During the 2022-23 Christmas and New Year period, when thousands of tribal Christians were driven out due to Sangh Parivar-backed violence, wasn't there a Congress government in power there? Was Rahul Gandhi on leave from party leadership at that time?"

The BJP government in Chhattisgarh had arrested the nuns und...