IDUKKI: Dean Kuriakose MP is popularly known as the ‘Young Turk’ of the Congress party after he recorded a historic victory in Idukki Lok Sabha constituency in the recent election. However, he is also known as the MP with the most number of criminal cases in the present Lok Sabha, thanks to the 204 criminal cases charged against him for organising a hartal.

It must be noted that Dean had called for the hartal to protest against the murder of two of his party members in Periya.

Dean, known to be a soft person, revealed to Kerala Kaumudi that he is often quizzed about these cases by many outside Kerala.

According to him, the Advocate General and the General of Prosecution ordered to charge him for organizing violent acts. The Idukki MP alleged that many of these cases are fabricated and politically motivated in order to tarnish his image. He also claimed that the hartal organised by him was one of the most peaceful hartals in the state.

Dean also made it clear that he does not intend to get bail for these fabricated cases and added that even the police official who was in charge knows that the accusations are baseless. Which police officer will dare to arrest me, who have not done any wrong? He added that he is all set to raise questions regarding these charges constitutionally in the High Court.

Indirectly accusing the LDF government of encouraging violence in the state, Dean said that “the party that is ruling Kerala now is the one that doesn’t deserve any right to speak a word against hartals”.