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Padmaja regrets remarks on Rajan

By Our Staff Reporter

THRISSUR, APRIL 23. The UDF candidate in the Mukundapuram Parliament constituency, Padmaja Venugopal, has expressed regrets over her controversial remarks on P. Rajan, the Calicut Regional Engineering College student who was allegedly tortured to death by police during the Emergency.

In a statement here today, Mrs. Venugopal said the remarks made by her at the spur of the moment during a recent private television channel programme were never intended to hurt or insult anybody. "I certainly feel sad that those remarks have pained the much-respected Eachara Warrier and his family. I fully understand that pain. But my remarks were only incidental and were made because of the provocation created when one of the members of the audience of that programme described my father, K. Karunakaran, who had crossed 86, as a murderer.''

She, however insisted that Mr. Karunakaran was innocent in the Rajan episode.

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