Coimbatore, Monday 08 June 2009: CPI on Monday said CPM Kerala state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan against whom the Governor has accorded sanction for CBI to prosecute in a graft case, should ‘fight it legally.’

‘Vijayan will face the proceedings, if CBI prosecutes him. He has to fight it legally,’ CPI deputy general secretary, Sudhakar Reddy told reporters.

The party would soon take up for discussion the issue of Kerala Governor according sanction to CBI to prosecute Vijayan in the case overruling cabinet recommendation against it.

Reddy was here to participate in party’s four-day Tamil Nadu unit executive meeting.