THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: At a press conference held here on Wednesday, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan harshly criticised Muslim League MLA K M Shaji for his Facebook post.

The post sarcastically made a public call for donating money to the chief minister’s relief fund. He asks Mahal Committee to donate to the relief fund so that it could be “used for paying lawyers’ fee in Shokkur case.

“I can’t believe this at all… Will such a statement come from the mouth of a person who is an MLA? K M Shaji’s party has been completely cooperating with government with Covid-related preventive activities. K M Shaji’s remark is a blatant lie. I can’t understand why he is misleading many poor people who do not know the technicality of CM’s relief fund and Advocate fee. His party itself should find out why he has taken such a stand. There may be some pervert minds among us,” he said a bit irked after reading the FB post to media persons.

The chief minister wound up the press meet saying that the whole state is standing united in the fight against Coronavirus and such isolated voices should be ignored.