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The Congress and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] crossed swords connected Sunday implicit a 2025 Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) proposal for a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into alleged Foreign Currency Regulation Act (FCRA), 2010, usurpation by Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan successful the usage of charitable foundations for rehabilitating 2018-flood affected families successful his constituency, Paravur.
The latest governmental fracas is against the backdrop of reports that the authorities has sought a ineligible sentiment successful the matter. Law Minister P. Rajeeve dismissed Congress’s effort to represent Mr. Satheesan arsenic the unfortunate of the Left Democratic Front’s (LDF) governmental witch-hunt.
He said the the United Democratic Front's (UDF) “self reproach” astir sending the SNC Lavalin lawsuit to the CBI contempt the Vigilance and the Kerala High Court giving a cleanable chit to the past Power Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected the eve of the issuance of the notification for the Assembly elections successful 2006 had prompted the Opposition to impeach the LDF of akin underhand tactics.
Communist Party of India (CPI) State caput Binoy Viswam said the VACB proposal had travel astatine an inopportune infinitesimal for the Congress. LDF convener T.P. Ramakrishnan said Mr. Satheesan, who evinced distrust successful State instrumentality enforcement and demanded a CBI enquiry astatine each crook and corner, including the Sabarimala golden theft, should amusement the gumption to look the FCRA inquiry.
Cong. stance
Meanwhile, Congress leaders rallied down Mr. Satheesan astatine the party’s enactment gathering successful Wayanad. They claimed that nary funds collected from overseas had been credited to Mr. Satheesan’s accounts, and that the charitable foundations had straight underwritten the rehabilitation expenses, including rebuilding houses and providing sewing machines to flood-affected families. The Congress claimed that the VACB failed to marque a lawsuit against Mr. Satheesan nether the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA).
Senior Congress person Ramesh Chennithala termed the government’s “sensationalist move” to implicate Mr. Satheesan successful a mendacious lawsuit arsenic an election-year propaganda instrumentality to assemblage retired “discomfiting” nationalist conversations astir the Sabarimala golden theft, among different issues bedevilling the LDF government, from the nationalist mind.
All India Congress Committee (AICC) wide caput K.C. Venugopal said the bid to implicate Mr. Satheesan successful an FCRA lawsuit falsely showed the CPI(M)’s desperation successful the look of “impending defeat” successful the 2026 Assembly polls.
