Central businesses serving to BJP-Congress alliance in Kerala: Pinarayi

By Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As the state acquired into the election mode, the central enforcement businesses have lastly resorted to ‘poozhikadakan’ — the final of the 18 strategies in ‘Kalaripayattu’ which is taken into account an evasive measure accomplished in desperately disadvantageous conditions — to place the state authorities on the mat with a watch on serving to the Kerala-level Congress-BJP alliance, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has stated. 

Addressing the media in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday, Pinarayi stated if the Enforcement Directorate has been making an attempt to destroy KIIFB, now the customs has taken over the marketing campaign for BJP and Congress in Kerala in opposition to the federal government. “The customs commissioner has submitted a statement recorded under Section 164 in the High Court in a case in which he was not a party. The motive behind the move is to tarnish the image of the state government,” he stated. 

Pinarayi alleged that the customs commissioner has been dancing to the tune of some political leaders. “The commissioner had submitted the statement recorded in last November. Firstly, the statement under Section 164 should not be revealed to anyone,” he stated.

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“The BJP state president and Opposition leader had in last November itself raised the issue. But it didn’t get people’s attention as it was aimed at tarnishing the image of the state government. Now, they have come up again, but this time the customs commissioner has become the puppet in their hands,” he stated. Pinarayi stated the customs was not excited by arresting the perpetrators of gold smuggling because the company remains to be clueless on the rackets that despatched the gold consignments or for whom they had been despatched.

LDF employees taking out a protest march to thecustoms zonal workplace in Thiruvananthapuramon Saturday | Vincent Pulickal“They are desperately looking ways to link the crime with any of the officials or leaders in the state government. When their attempts to link the crime with CMO failed due to the revelation of an upright joint customs commissioner, he was transferred to Nagpur to implement the plans of BJP in the state,” he stated. “Isn’t it only after a MoS for External affairs from Kerala took charge that gold smuggling through diplomatic channel started to Kerala,” he requested.

He additionally sought to know the connection between the minister and the one who insisted the gold smuggling accused to not reveal the diplomatic connection within the smuggling. “Why did the minister take a stance that the smuggling was held not through the diplomatic channel, despite a MoS for Finance informed Parliament about the diplomatic connection of smuggling,” he requested. 

“All these developments and the latest campaigning of customs on behalf of the BJP and Congress show that there is a move to put the government in a bad light. But they should understand that this is Kerala and such tactics will not do any good for them as the people know this government very well,” he stated.