Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 1: Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan today whipped up another controversy when he said he was insulted yesterday by the family of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, when he visited them to pay his last respects to the martyr.
In an interview to an English TV Channel today, he strongly reacted to the misbehaviour of Major's father with him, when he visited the latter's house at Bangalore along with the state Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan to express the state's condolence to the family yesterday.
In a sharp reaction, he told the channel here that ''had it not been for Sandeep, not even a dog would have visited them.'' Stating that the state had an attachment to Major Sandeep, his father and his family, Mr Achuthanandan said that Mr Unnikrishnan should have realised it.
As the father of a solider, Mr Unnikrishnan should not have reacted in such a manner as it did not befit him.
On the remarks of Mr Unnikrishnan that Kerala Chief Minister did not turn up though the Karnataka Chief Minister paid tribute to the Major, he asked were there any standing orders that he should have visited along with Mr Yeddurappa.
However, Unnikrishnan in his remarks to the same TV channel said that he did not want the Kerala Ministers to visit his house under any compulsion, which prompted him to mete out the kind of treatment he did.
KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala said that a responsible leader Mr Achuthanandan should not make such sharp statements.
--- UNI
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