BJP state president K Surendran has issued communal slurs on giving ministership to Beypore MLA and DYFI national president Muhammed Riyas. “First of all, daughter, then an important ministry. With this, the League will come to an end,” Surendran wrote in his Facebook post.

In another post, he wrote the next five years will be quite eventful and teacher-amma will have sleepless nights in the days to come. “Secretary’s wife, CM’s son-in-law, speaker’s qualification is the same as that of his predecessor. Thus, in short, the Pinarayi government’s cabinet is ridden with nepotism and blessed by Stalin’s ghost. The next five years will be eventful and teacher-amma will have sleepless nights,” he said in his Facebook post.

Some had criticised in social media that Riyas is being made a minister in Pinarayi’s cabinet for being his son-in-law. However, Riyas had defeated UDF’s PM Niyas with a margin of 28,747 votes in the assembly polls. Muhammed Riyas who completed his Bcom from Farooq college later also completed LLB from Kozhikode Law College. He had also functioned in the party under the capacities of SFI district committee member and state joint secretary of DYFI.