Vijayan might have faced country-made gun, but continues to elude media

The exploits of chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan that catapulted him to fame in a relatively short period seems to be fading away by his persistent avoidance of media for the past 150 days.

Stories of him single-handedly fighting all forms of attack, including baring his chest before a country-made gun, are all history.

An incident not many know of is few decades ago he told a local ‘goon’ in Kannur, if he has the guts pull the trigger of the country-made gun that was pointed on his chest and he did that, but the trigger failed to work and Vijayan escaped, but now many are baffled on why he is continuing to duck the media.

On Sunday it will be 150 days since he has interacted with the media.

His political foes point credit his successive term in office, a first of its kind in Kerala in 2021, to his deft handling of the media soon after the Covid pandemic broke out in March 2020.