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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Monday powerfully countered media reports that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had issued a announcement to his son, Vivek Kiran, for questioning connected suspicion of wealth laundering and past “mystifyingly dropped” further proceedings successful 2023.
The channels had claimed that the ED addressed the purported announcement to the Cliff House, Mr. Vijayan’s authoritative residence successful Thiruvananthapuram.
Subsequently, the Congress seized connected the reports to wrong-foot the government. It alleged that Mr. Vijayan’s “secret symbiotic truck” with the ruling dispensation astatine the Centre had stymied the ED’s further action.
Mr. Vijayan told a property conference, somewhat combatively, that the adverse paper headlines and accusatory quality chyrons connected tv channels would not deter him, arsenic successful the past, from taking the derogatory allegations aimed astatine causing him governmental and reputational harm head-on.
He clarified that neither the Cliff House nor his lad had received immoderate specified summons from the bureau (ED). He said the Communist Party of India (Marxist) wide caput M.A. Baby had talked astir the beingness of the purported announcement without “studying” the matter. “The media reports that deed the headlines indispensable person informed his archetypal reaction,” helium said.
Mr Vijayan appeared to onslaught a idiosyncratic note. He said his 2 children had done him proud. “Both person lived their ain lives and not fixed immoderate origin to maine oregon my authorities to consciousness embarrassed astir them. My lad shuttles betwixt his enactment and home. Have you ever seen him successful the halls of power?. He does not adjacent cognize the layout of Cliff House and is seldom astatine home. He has ne'er sought to monetise my office. Can you (the media) accidental the aforesaid astir the children of definite different politicians?,” helium added.
Mr. Vijayan noted that the regional-language media location that broke the “story” seemed someway compelled to people hand-fed falsehoods purportedly from the “agency”.
He said the media outlet had urged viewers to stay tuned successful for “bombshell news,” which turned retired to beryllium a damp squib.
Mr. Vijayan said helium and his household had been the victims of respective media witch-hunts and slanderous campaigns passim his governmental life.
“However, the smear campaigns person seldom perturbed me. I ticker them unfold with a consciousness of interior amusement. Truth, honesty and incorruptability fortify me. My hands are clean, untainted by corruption oregon nepotism. I person the courageousness of that conviction,” helium said.
