THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: NSS General Secretary Sukumaran Nair demanded that the government should clarify its stand on the comments of Speaker AN Shamseer. Sukumaran Nair said that MV Govindan's response in this regard is only seen as the opinion of the party secretary by the believers. Shamseer is beating around the bush on the subject. The NSS General Secretary stated in a press release that none of these responses is a solution to the pain of the believers.

The government's position on the matter should be known next. Sukumaran Nair also said that if the government's position is the same, other peaceful and practical ways to solve the problem will have to be looked into. Earlier, NSS had demanded that Shamseer should not continue in his position as Assembly Speaker and withdraw his remarks which hurt the sentiments of the believers and apologize. However, MV Govindan said that Shamseer had no intention of apologizing and changing what he said and that what he had said was completely true. Shamseer had clarified that his remark was not intended to hurt any religious belief and how saying that scientific awareness should be developed would hurt the believers.