CPI (M) stalwart and Opposition leader in the Kerala Assembly V. S. Achuthanandan today called on Chief Minister Oommen Chandy at the Medical College hospital here, where he has been admitted after being hurt in stone-pelting by LDF workers at Kannur.

Achuthanandan, however, declined to make any statement to presspersons, who have thronged the hospital.

Though a trenchant critic of Chandy, Achuthanandan had condemned the attack on him, stating the LDF did not call for a violent mode of protest over the solar panel scam.

Apart from the nonagenarian leader, there has been a steady stream of visitors since early morning to the hospital, where Chandy has been admitted for a detailed check-up and observation.

On advice from the doctors, all his official programmes for the day have been cancelled.

Though Chandy was keen to keep up his pre-scheduled “mass contact programme” in neighbouring Kollam district tomorrow, it has been postponed for later this week as insisted by doctors.

The second phase of the district-wise mass contact programme, started from the State capital last week, has been drawing a huge turn-out, mostly the under-privileged, seeking redressal of various problems ranging from welfare pensions to medical aid.

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