Date:24/08/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/08/24/stories/2006082416820400.htm

Kerala - Thiruvananthapuram

File FIR against Joseph: YC

Special Correspondent

Thiruvananthapuram: The Youth Congress has said that it would block Public Works Minister P. J. Joseph from August 25 if the Chief Minister failed to announce a credible inquiry and remove him from the Cabinet. The Government should not waste any more time in filing an FIR, it said.

Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, Youth Congress State president K. P. Anil Kumar and other office-bearers said that the interference in the inquiry could not be ruled out if the Minister, who had been accused of misbehaving with a women passenger while on board from Chennai to Kochi, were to continue in office.