THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that KM Mani's position is among the rare socialites who have achieved a place in the parliamentary history of the world. KM Mani Legal Excellence Award by Kerala Lawyers Congress Adv. He presented it to Mancheri Sreedharan Nair at a function held at Mascot Hotel.

His legal knowledge made Mani a good law minister. He had the ability to understand constitutional provisions, procedures and legal provisions well and apply them in a timely manner. The Indian Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code have been altered with communal interest and modified with linguistic bias. There is a situation in the country where communalism is being introduced even into laws. Reforms aimed at reforming the laws of Macaulay's time are not taking place now. The slogan of one country one election is to seize political power through the back door. IPC 124 is misused as a section to portray political dissidents as traitors. The Chief Minister said that in the new law reform, we cannot expect to remove this section.

Lawyers Congress state president Joseph John presided. Minister Roshi Augustine, Jose K Mani MP, Additional Advocate General KP Jayachandran, K Veni, Satish Vasanth, Stephen George, Justin Jacob and others spoke.