On Wednesday, CPM state-secretary Pinarayi Vijayan addressed a public function in Kozhikode, at which he lashed out at Gopalakrishnan and issued veiled threats and warnings. Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan today told the Assembly that police protection has been ordered for Gopalakrishnan, though he wasn’t sure if the editor’s life was under threat.
There have been other attacks on the paper. Its office in Perambra was burnt down recently after it carried a report on DYFI, the CPM’s youth wing. Opposition members in the Assembly condemned a reported DYFI threat that it would make sure Mathrubhumi journalists “end up on the floor under white sheets.”
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