Twitter has hogged the spotlight in Kerala for long, courtesy Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and now it's Facebook that has become a cause of worry for the Kerala government.
Kerala's Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan has been on the receiving end since he commented about Minister of State of Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran in the state assembly on Tuesday.
To questions posed by the Opposition in the Assembly, Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan seemed to implicitly imply that the junior minister had given him a list of persons to be made the accused in the controversial Revolutionary Marxist Party leader TP Chandrashekhar's murder case.
This was reason enough to upset CPI(M) leaders.
The matter did not go down well with Mullapally Ramachandran who immediately posted a strong objection on his Facebook wall saying, "The minister's statement amounts to casting aspersions on a person who cannot come and defend himself on the floor of the Kerala assembly. This is against all canons of parliamentary rules and procedure.
"I intend to get the statement of the minister thoroughly examined and I will take up the matter with the Hon'ble speaker of Kerala assembly as also with the Hon'ble speaker of the Lok Sabha."
Kerala's Home Minister is now attempting a truce. He said,"I never said that Mullapally Ramachandran has named anybody or has given a list, CPI(M) is now trying to manipulate. I said I will talk to Mullapally Ramachandran about the issue but maintain as before that no one from outside should influence such investigations."
He even admitted that using social media wasn't his usual style of functioning.