THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The maiden speech of Anoop Jacob in the Assembly, who had won a bypoll from the Piravom segment and sworn in as a member of the House the other day,turned passionate and sentimental laden with memories of his father,the late T M Jacob. “I can’t say if it is fortune or misfortune that is following me as a son. I bow my head before the memories of my father,” he said,in his five-minute speech. “I am fully aware of how serious my father was as a Legislator. I also know of his immense involvement in the business of the Assembly. Even when he was ill, he gave little heed to the concern of the family members and came to attend the sessions from the hospital. When I stand here now, I know that he is with me and his soul would be content and happy,” he said. Anoop, in an apparent reference to the Opposition charges outside the House that the bypoll victory was garnered by flowing liquor and money, also added that the people of Piravom would not surrender their self-respect for a glass of liquor. “The mandate is for the democratic and people-oriented activities of the Oommen Chandy Govt,” he said. “The faces of mothers and sisters of my constituency, longing for water supply is in my mind,” he said and pleaded support from the government for a solution to it. He led the House to laughter by lauding Finance Minister K M Mani as one who had not only borrowed youthfulness, by signaling a slew of measures to reorient the youth and revamping the state’s agricultural sector in his tenth budget, but became one among the youth himself in the process.
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