File photo of K K Shailaja.
Credit: PTI Photo
Thiruvananthapuram: CPM MLA and former health minister K K Shailaja meeting convicts, who were found involved in the attack on Rajya Sabha member C Sadanandan Master, has triggered a row.
Sadanandan, who got recently nominated to the Rajya Saba, had come under attack from CPM workers at Mattanur in Kannur on January 25, 1994. Both his legs were chopped.
Eight CPM activists sentenced in the case were on bail as their appeals were pending. With the SC recently rejecting the appeals, they surrendered before court on Monday and were sent to prison.
Among the CPM local leaders and workers who turned up at the court to greet the convicts included Shailaja who is a MLA from Kannur.
Sadanandan told a section of the media that being an elected representative, Shailaja's open support to political violence convicts would send wrong signal to the society.