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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Wednesday sought answers from the Congress enactment regarding photographs showing the main suspects successful the Sabarimala golden theft lawsuit alongside Sonia Gandhi successful her high-security residence successful Delhi.
He said photographs showed main accused successful the lawsuit Unnikrishnan Potti and different suspect, Govardhan, a jeweller from Bellary, on with Ms. Gandhi and 2 Congress leaders from Kerala, Adoor Prakash and Anto Antony, some MPs, successful the house.
“Mr. Potti is seen tying a thread connected Ms. Gandhi’s wrist, portion Mr. Govardhan presents a memento, helium added.
Mr. Vijayan said that, fixed Ms. Gandhi’s known reluctance to supply a idiosyncratic assemblage to adjacent elder Congress leaders, it remained a enigma however Mr. Potti and Mr. Govardan, some successful judicial remand, could breeze into her location and office, escorted by 2 MPs.
He demanded that Mr. Antony and Mr. Prakash explicate their narration with Mr. Potti and Mr. Govardhan earlier calling “comrades temple thieves.”
Mr. Vijayan noted that gaining entree to Ms. Gandhi had been perennially hard for elder Congress leaders. In 2003, helium stated that erstwhile Chief Minister K. Karunakaran expressed resentment that Ms. Gandhi made him hold for days astatine Kerala House for an appointment. Mr. Karunkaran discontinue the Congress successful 2005 and formed a caller party.
Similarly, Mr. Vijayan said the contiguous Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma near the Congress and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) aft Ms. Gandhi denied him an audience. “The aforesaid rejection of idiosyncratic assemblage had prompted the Congress Legislative Party successful Arunachal Pradesh to discontinue Ms. Gandhi’s enactment en masse and articulation the BJP,” helium added.
Mr. Vijayan noted that Mr. Potti and Mr. Govardhan were “prominent and permanent” fixtures successful Sabarimala during the United Democratic Front (UDF) regime. He challenged Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan and Ramesh Chennithala to explicate the suspects’ entrenched Congress connections earlier vilifying the government, which has approached the contented legally and apolitically.
He condemned the Congress-BJP’s “team effort” to politicise the crime.
