THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala said that the governor and the chief minister are playing Tom and Jerry. "Pinarayi Vijayan has once again proved that he will go any extend to hang on to power. The agreement reached with the BJP for the second term of rule has been going on for some time now", Chennithala said.

Opposition leader VD Satheesan had earlier criticized the government and the governor. He alleged that what was going on between the government and the governor was a give-and-take drama and said that there were intermediaries to resolve the issue between them and underlined that what the opposition had said earlier was true. "The governor is acting as the BJP's spokesperson in Thiruvananthapuram. He is controlled by the BJP central leadership", Satheesan said.