Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan Monday issued a public apology to celebrity Mammootty over assaults from Left-handled accounts in obvious response to the actor-producer asking a CPI(M) district functionary who accompanied him to not observe too carefully throughout a go to to the Wayanad Mannequin Township.

“The unlucky factor is the reviews that CPI(M) cyber activists attacked him. Have the CPI(M) cyber employees not been capable of determine Mammootty? If, as a part of such a marketing campaign, our Malayali’s nice actor felt any discomfort or bother at this stage, I publicly apologise to him. Insulting him in such a way was one thing that ought to not have occurred,” Vijayan stated at an occasion in Thiruvananthapuram.

“Naturally, he tells that younger man, ‘I didn’t come since you invited me, I’m right here by myself. You’ll not stroll with me.’ In any other case, it might need been interpreted in another way,” Vijayan stated. He stated the visuals had been used to create an issue and to flow into information that the CPI(M) employee was insulted.

Vijayan’s remarks come a day after Mammootty’s interplay with CPI(M) Wayanad district secretary Ok. Rafeeq went viral on-line, the place the actor was seen telling the politician to not observe him carefully, saying it might give the impression that the actor’s go to was on the social gathering’s behalf.

Following this, the actor additionally acquired criticism on-line, particularly from related Left-handlers, claiming his comment was disrespectful. Quickly after, Rafeeq stated that the actor had referred to as him to make clear that the comment was not “supposed to insult him”.

Rafeeq stated his intervention within the occasion was to keep away from “bother” for the actor. In a Fb submit on Sunday, he additionally requested that the controversy mustn’t diminish the accomplishments of the state authorities and that the information of Mammootty’s go to ought to solely be mentioned positively.

The Wayanad Mannequin Township is a state authorities undertaking to construct 410 homes for the survivors of the 2024 Wayanad landslides. The primary part of the township, with 178 homes and costing Rs 300 crore, was inaugurated, on March 1.

(Edited by Nardeep Singh Dahiya)

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