Overview

• Youth Congress Ernakulam district president Sijo Joseph lodged a formal complaint on July 24 seeking action against Malayalam actor Vinayakan for a Facebook post deemed disrespectful to veteran leader V S Achuthanandan.
• The complaint highlights Vinayakan’s use of a derogatory Malayalam term to describe the deaths of Achuthanandan, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, K Karunakaran and Oommen Chandy.
• It warns that the actor’s remarks could inflame followers of the CPI(M) veteran and disrupt law and order in Kerala cities.
• The youth wing has asked the director general of police to register a case under relevant defamation and public order provisions to prevent similar posts.
• Vinayakan previously faced a police case in 2023 for comments on former chief minister Oommen Chandy’s death, underscoring the recurring nature of his contentious social media remarks.