Rajeev Chandrasekhar slammed Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday (File)

New Delhi:

A case has been registered against Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar over controversial remarks on the serial blasts in Kerala.

Official sources said the case has been registered against the minister for spreading social hatred. “He has been charged for making statements that promote enmity between different groups,” news agency PTI quoted senior police official as saying.

Mr Chandrasekhar, hours after the serial blasts at a prayer meet in Kerala on Sunday, slammed Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan alleging politics of appeasement.

He hit out at Mr Vijayan over a Hamas operative’s virtual address at an event organised by a religious group in Malappuram.

“Dirty shameless appeasement politics by a discredited CM (and HM) @pinarayivijayan besieged by corruption charges. Sitting in Delhi and protesting against Israel, when in Kerala open calls by Terrorist Hamas for Jihad is causing attacks and bomb blasts on innocent Christians,” he had said on X – formerly known as Twitter.

Dirty shameless appeasement politics by a discredited CM (and HM) @pinarayivijayan besieged by corruption charges

Sitting in Delhi and protesting against Israel , when in Kerala open calls by Terrorist Hamas for Jihad is causing attacks and bomb blasts on innocent christians https://t.co/MQH0ycZsqu

— Rajeev Chandrasekhar 🇮🇳 (@Rajeev_GoI) October 29, 2023

Responding to Mr Chandrasekhar, the Chief Minister said that his remarks reflected a larger communal agenda.

“Those who are poisonous will keep spewing their venom. A Union minister accused me of practising appeasement politics and mobilising protests against Israel. As a responsible minister, he should have shown minimum respect for the investigating agencies that are looking into the incident. It is still early days in the ongoing investigation and they have already started making public statements targeting a particular section of the population,” he said.