Congress alleges BJP tried to buy off its candidate in Palakkad

The Congress has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of trying to power its campaigner successful ward 50 of the Palakkad municipality, alleging that the BJP offered wealth to its campaigner K. Ramesh to transportation him to retreat from the contest.

V.K. Sreekandan, MP, said present connected Monday that BJP’s outgoing councillor and the contiguous campaigner tried to power Mr. Ramesh by offering him money. He said it was a usurpation of the predetermination codification of conduct.

Both Mr. Sreekandan and Rahul Mamkootathil, MLA, reached Mr. Ramesh’s location and spoke to him. Police recorded the connection of Mr. Ramesh and his household pursuing a complaint. Police said they would proceed aft seeking ineligible advice.

Nomination rejected

Left Democratic Front (LDF) candidate’s information from ward 50 was rejected successful the scrutiny, leaving the contention betwixt the BJP and the Congress.

Mr. Sreekandan alleged that the BJP sought to unafraid an unopposed triumph successful ward 50 by pressuring the Congress campaigner to withdraw, hoping to leverage that triumph during their run successful different wards of the municipality.

But the BJP denied the allegation. BJP councillor Jayalakshmi K. said that she called Mr. Ramesh to privation him occurrence successful the predetermination and not to power him. She said she was not alert of different BJP leaders’ sojourn to his house.

But Mr. Ramesh has complained that Ms. Jayalakshmi reached his location on with the BJP campaigner Sunil asking him to retreat the nomination.

BJP eastbound territory president Prasanth Sivan said that the Congress raised the ailment arsenic portion of a determination to screen up its interior problems. He said BJP councillors and candidates went to Mr. Ramesh’s location to canvass votes. He said the BJP leaders visited not lone Mr. Ramesh’s location but his neighbouring houses arsenic well.

Mr. Sivan said that the BJP request not power anyone to contention ward 50, which is simply a bastion of the party. “Even if the UDF and the LDF articulation hands against the BJP successful that ward, they volition not get adjacent 100 votes there,” helium said.

Mr. Sivan challenged Mr. Sreekandan to nutrient grounds to enactment his assertion of influencing the Congress candidate. “Even if Rahul Gandhi were to contention successful ward 50, the BJP would triumph – fto unsocial Mr. Sreekandan,” helium said.