Attacking the ruling Left Front in poll-bound Kerala, the Congress on Monday alleged there appears to be some understanding between the BJP-led NDA and LDF governments because of which no FIR has been registered in opposition to the Chief Minister, three of his cupboard colleagues and the Assembly speaker within the gold smuggling case. The case has landed on the door of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, AICC common secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala stated.
Not solely the CM, however three of his cupboard colleagues and the Speaker have been named by Swapna Suresh, the important thing accused within the case, he claimed and identified that the previous principal secretary to Vijayan was arrested by the probe companies. “But Prime minister Narendra Modi and his government have not registered an FIR against the chief minister in the gold smuggling case nor have they acted against him,” Surjewala instructed reporters right here.
He additionally wished to know what particular relationship Vijayan loved with Modi which prevented central companies just like the Enforcement Directorate from initiating motion in opposition to the chief minister, his three ministers and Speaker. There appears to be a nexus between the CPI(M) and the BJP, he alleged.
The gold smuggling case pertains to the seizure of about 30 kg gold value Rs 14.82 crore from a diplomatic baggage at Thiruvananthapuram International airport in July 2020, which is being probed by the Enforcement Directorate, Customs and the National Investigation Agency. M Sivasankar, former principal secretary to the CM, now below suspension, was arrested in reference to the case and is on bail.
The congress chief additionally wished to know whether or not the LDF authorities was searching for to buy 300 MW long run wind energy from the Adani group for 25 years at an approximate value of Rs 8,785 crore to the exchequer and individuals of Kerala. Surjewala stated if the reply was within the affirmative, then maybe the LDF authorities’s protest in opposition to the handing over of the Thiruvananthapuram airport to the Adani group was a mere facade to “hoodwink” the bigger understanding between the LDF and Centre.
The Congress chief requested why the Left authorities was buying wind energy at Rs 2.90 per unit when solar energy was obtainable at Rs 1.90 per unit and if the 2 governments “deliberately and consciously” had diminished the quota of solar energy within the renewable vitality basket from 2.75 per cent of whole vitality to 0.25 per cent to facilitate the acquisition of energy from the Adani group.
