Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan
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Thiruvananthapuram: A police probe is on into a controversial social media post by a nun targeting Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
Teena Jose, identified as a nun and lawyer based in Kochi, made the controversial social media post. In a post about Pinarayi Vijayan beginning his campaigning for the local body election, Jose commented in Malayalam: "Someone should throw a bomb and finish off him. If a good person like Rajiv Gandhi could be finished off, this one is also possible."
The post is widely interpreted as a call for attacking the Chief Minister. Apart from social media attacks against the nun, Kerala general education minister and CPM leader V Sivankutty strongly flayed the comment.
Subsequently the police launched a probe into the matter.
The Congregation of Mother of Carmel said in a statement that sister Jose was removed from the congregation in 2009 and hence she is not a nun under the canonical laws now.
Sister Jose had courted controversies earlier also after raising voice against the patriarchal systems in churches.