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Senior CPI leader in Kerala quits party
The payment seat row rattling the Communist Party of India (CPI), the second largest constituent of Kerala’s opposition Left Democratic Front, has taken a new turn on Saturday with a senior leader quitting the party and demanding probe against party secretary Panniyan Raveendran and secretariat members in the matter.
Party’s former Trivandrum district secretary P Ramachandran Nair, who was removed from the party’s state executive in connection with the issue, said that he would approach the Lokayukta, which is currently investigating the complaint, with a plea to expand the scope of the probe by including them as accused in the case.
He told reporters that the secretary and the secretariat members were found guilty by the state council that took action against him and two others and had even censored them. Nair, who was the party candidate for the Lok Sabha election from Trivandrum in 2009, said that the party had hidden the action from the media.
He said that the secretariat, including the secretary, had lost their moral authority to lead the party following the action. He has demanded publication of the report of the inquiry conducted by the party into the charge.
Based on the report, Nair and another senior leader C Divakaran were removed from party state executive and V Sasi as party district secretary. Following the action, Sasi quit the party immediately and joined the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), a constituent of the ruling Congress-led United Democratic Front.
The anti-corruption agency had initiated the probe on a complaint that it had taken a bribe of Rs.18.7 million from Church-sponsored candidate Bennet Abraham to make him a candidate against Shashi Tharoor of the Congress in the 2014 elections, in which the party nominee was relegated to third position.
The CPI had objected to the probe saying the Lokayukta had no locus standi to probe into the affairs of a political party. However, the agency rejected the plea and asked the special team to continue with its investigations.
However, the Lokayukta accepted the party plea and suspended its earlier order granting permission to the investigating team to seize the records related to the party’s parleys on seats. It has also appointed an amicus curiae was appointed to help the Lokayukta. -news@khaleejtimes.com
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