Kerala CM lying: Rly Minister on harassment of Nuns in UP

Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday alleged that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was "making false statements" on the issue that two nuns belonging to a Kerala-based congregation were "attacked" during a train journey via Uttar Pradesh recently. "There was no attack on any nun whatsoever...the Chief Minister of the state (Kerala) is completely lying and making false statements when he says that," Goyal told a press conference in Kochi. The Railway Minister dismissed the allegations that the alleged student activists associated with a Sangh Parivar outfit bogged the nuns down and pulled them out of the train. "That is absolutely wrong", he said.

Launching a fresh attack on the Kerala government, Goyal  said that if voted to power, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government will implement the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 in the state and assured that it does not hurt anyone living in the state legitimately. “The issue today in Kerala is the corruption of LDF, gold scam, persecution of Hindus,” the minister said. Kerala goes to polls in a single phase on April 1 and the votes will be counted on May 2.