Kerala CPI(M) MP gets abusive calls after Facebook post supporting Kanhaiya Kumar

CPI(M) MP M B Rajesh today claimed that he had received threats and abusive calls after he came out in support of JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who was arrested on sedition charges.

In a Facebook post, Rajesh criticised the BJP and Sangh Parivar for the arrest and had also questioned the alliance of PDP-BJP in Jammu Kashmir. He had also sought answers for 10 questions from the BJP.

Rajesh said he had first got a call from a person at midnight yesterday stating that he wanted to talk something important to him. The caller, identifying himself as Biju, wanted to know why he was "supporting anti-national and Pakistani forces".

Though he discontinued the conversation and switched off his mobile, the man called him repeatedly on his landline also. He said the caller had been identified and he would file a police complaint soon. 

In one his Facebook posts, Rajesh had shared a photo with that quoted Kanhaiya Kumar as saying, "Don't need a certificate of patriotism from RSS. our beliefs are on the other side of the spectrum from those in power at the Centre." Rajesh had captioned the photo asking, "Where is the anti-nationalism in this? Where is the treason?"

(With PTI inputs.)