Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 24 (IANS) Demanding accountability in the alleged Sabarimala gold scam, Kerala BJP president Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Tuesday said that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan should “apologise before Lord Ayyappa” for the manner in which the issue was handled.The remark came during the party’s “Ayyappa Jyothi” protest staged outside Cliff House, the Chief Minister’s official residence, where BJP workers lit lamps and raised slogans accusing the government of shielding…
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Kochi, Feb 23 (IANS) AICC general secretary K.C. Venugopal on Monday questioned the State government’s handling of the arrest of the Sabarimala tantri, alleging an undue eagerness to portray him as guilty despite the absence of evidence cited by the court.Venugopal said that if credible evidence existed, no one would object to the arrest. However, he pointed out that the Vigilance Court, while granting bail, had observed that there was not even a shred of evidence against the Tantri.“What is…
Palakkad (Kerala), Feb 17 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition V. D. Satheesan on Tuesday asserted that the Kerala High Court’s intervention against the Pinarayi Vijayan government’s Nava Kerala Survey had validated the charges consistently raised by the Opposition, alleging large-scale misuse of public funds for electioneering.Satheesan said the survey was conceived as a political exercise to project the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist’s (CPI-M) achievements ahead of elections.He alleged t…
Malappurram Feb 14 (IANS) Launching a scathing attack on the Kerala government, Leader of the Opposition in Kerala Assembly V. D. Satheesan on Saturday alleged that the Global Ayyappa Meet held last year at Pampa was “a continuation of the Sabarimala gold heist”, and demanded a comprehensive probe into what he described as a multi-crore fraud.Satheesan claimed that despite repeated directions from the High Court to maintain transparent accounts, large-scale irregularities had surfaced in the con…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 22 (IANS) The Kerala Assembly on Thursday witnessed an unprecedented spectacle, with a viral parody song, already a roaring hit on social media, reverberating across the floor of the House amid a heated political confrontation over the Sabarimala gold theft case.The song, ‘Pottiye Ketti’, a parody of a hugely popular Sabarimala devotional hymn, shot to prominence after the controversy surfaced. Its lyrics, which allege that “comrades” were behind the theft of gold plates …
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 17 (IANS) Former Travancore Devaswom Board member and senior CPI leader K.P. Sankaradas, arrested in connection with the Sabarimala gold heist case, was shifted from a private hospital to the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College Hospital on Saturday evening, even as the Special Investigation Team (SIT) accelerated the probe ahead of a crucial deadline set by the Kerala High Court.Sankaradas was taken into custody on Wednesday while undergoing treatment at a private hospital…