CPI(M) denies Kerala government had tarnished K.M. Mani’s memory in the SC
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CPI(M) performing State secretary, A. Vijayaraghavan, on Tuesday, sought to place to relaxation the newest controversy over the identify and legacy of late Kerala Congress (M) chief K. M. Mani.
Mr. Vijayaraghavan stepped out of the CPI(M) State Secretariat assembly to disclaim media reviews that the Kerala government’s counsel in the Supreme Court had portrayed Mr. Mani as a “corrupt Finance Minister”.
The State government had sought the Supreme Court’s permission to withdraw the felony costs slapped towards six Left Democratic Front (LDF) legislators for disrupting the Assembly throughout the funds presentation on March 13, 2015. At the time, K. M. Mani was the finance minister.
Certain sections of the media alleged that the State government’s standing counsel had depicted K. M. Mani as “corrupt” to justify the LDF’s conduct on the flooring of the House.
The information reviews that dominated the airwaves had threatened to forged a pall of distrust over the get together’s delicate relationship with KC(M), a latest coalition accomplice.
Moreover, the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Opposition had sought to pressurise KC(M) chief Jose. K. Mani, to disavow the CPI(M) for “sullying” his father’s memory.
Mr. Vijayaraghavan stated the media had distorted the proceedings in the SC. The Government has filed no assertion accusing K. M. Mani of corruption.
Back-to-back anti-corruption enquiries had absolved K. M. Mani of any “personal culpability” in the bar bribery case. The LDF had agitated in the Assembly towards the entrenched corruption in the then UDF government.
Moreover, the KC(M) had parted methods with the UDF. It had rejected the UDF’s corruption and energetic pursuance of anti-farmer neo-liberal insurance policies.
The UDF had conspired with a bit of the anti-government media to drive a wedge between the CPI(M) and KC(M), Mr. Vijayaraghavan stated.
The KC(M) management is huddled collectively for a closed-door assembly in Kottayam. Irrigation Minister Roshy Augustine and Mr. Jose have been current. They have been prone to make a press release.
Kerala Congress (Joseph) group chief, Monce Joseph, MLA, dared Mr. Jose to stop the LDF to defend K. M. Mani’s honour. Congress legislator Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan stated the episode had revealed the duplicity of the CPI(M) in its dealings with LDF companions. He stated K. M. Mani was one among the founding leaders of the UDF. The opposition had a proper to defend its late chief, he stated.
The LDF had in 2015 accused K. M of getting misplaced the ethical proper to current the funds by allegedly accepting bribes from the hotelier’s affiliation to reopen scores of bars shuttered for sustaining poor hygiene requirements. The so-called bar-bribery case had rocked the Oomen Chandy government.
The police case was that the LDF opposition had destroyed microphones, computer systems, grappled with the watch and ward and toppled the Speaker’s chair to discourage K.M. Mani from delivering the Budget speech. The pictures of the destruction in the Assembly had remained etched in public memory. They forged the LDF leaders in a poor mild.
The case discovered its strategy to the SC after the Chief Judicial Magistrate-Thiruvananthapuram and, later, the Kerala High Court rejected the State’s plea to withdraw the litigation.
The police had booked the LDF leaders below the Prevention of Destruction of Public Property Act and sections 447 (felony trespass) and 427 (mischief inflicting harm) of the Indian Penal Code.
They had named E. P. Jayarajan, V. Sivankutty, C. K. Sadasivam, Kunjahammed Master, all Communist Party of India (Marxist) members, K. Ajith of the CPI and K. T. Jaleel, an LDF impartial, as accused in the case. Mr. Sivankutty is presently the Minister for General Education.
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