The BJP in Kerala, going through expenses of utilizing hawala cash for April 6 Assembly polls, on Sunday accused the CPI(M)-led LDF authorities of enjoying ‘politics of revenge’ towards it in reference to a freeway heist that came about in Thrissur district. In a press convention held forward of the state BJP’s core committee assembly right here, senior occasion leaders alleged that the accused within the Kodakara theft case had been related to the Left events and the police was conducting “a proper political operation” on the behest of the CPI(M).
Strongly backing its state president Okay Surendran, the occasion additionally stated he was being personally focused by the LDF authorities over the problem by unleashing propaganda towards him and his members of the family. The BJP leaders additionally condemned the Kochi metropolis police motion forcing the occasion to shift the venue of the core committee assembly from a resort right here to its district committee workplace.
Prior to the assembly, the police had served a discover to the resort administration urging it to not permit the assembly to be organised with out adhering to COVID-19 protocol. Besides Surendran, Union Minister V Muraleedharan, former state presidents of the occasion, Kummanam Rajendran and P Okay Krishnadas and different senior leaders addressed the press meet.
“The CPI(M)-led government is making a conscious attempt to humiliate the BJP and its leaders in public in connection with the heist that took place in Kodakara. The CPI(M) is using the state police for political revenge”, Rajendran alleged.
The saffron occasion alleged that as a substitute of checking the decision record of the accused within the heist case, the police was checking the decision record of businessman Dharmarajan, who’s the complainant within the case. Instead of nabbing the robbers and recovering the cash, the police are researching how the case might be linked to the BJP, as the one that misplaced the cash helped the BJP in election marketing campaign.
“The Kerala police is conducting a proper political operation in the Kodakara case. Checking the call list of the accused in a case is common, but taking the call list of the complainant is a strange method of investigation”, the BJP stated.
The occasion alleged that apart from one individual, all others arrested within the case had been related to the CPI(M) and the CPI. It additional alleged that one of the accused within the case was a employee of a youth wing of a communist occasion and he had shut hyperlinks with a Left MLA from Thrissur district.
After the theft, the accused had sought assist from a CPI(M) activist from SN Puram, the BJP alleged. Amid reviews that Surendran’s son could also be summoned for questioning by the police probing the heist case, the BJP claimed that this was being achieved to hunt revenge for the arrest of CPI(M) chief Kodiyeri Balakrishan’s son in reference to a drug trafficking case in Bengaluru.
“The party will unite against any attempt to unleash false propaganda and attack the BJP state president after alienating him”, the BJP stated. The CPI(M) and the Congress have accused the BJP of utilizing massive quantities of black cash within the meeting polls.
In the “Kodakara havala heist case”, the particular investigation staff on Saturday had questioned the driving force and private aide of the BJP state chief. The Congress has demanded a judicial probe into the allegations towards the BJP management.
According to a grievance filed by Shamjeer Samsudheen on April 7, a gang had stopped his automobile on the Kodakara flyover right here and robbed Rs 25 lakh saved within the car when he was on his approach to Kochi from Kozhikode. Though the grievance had stated that solely Rs 25 lakh was stolen, the investigators later discovered that the precise quantity could possibly be about Rs 3.5 crore and it was a hawala transaction, police sources stated.
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