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Congress and Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) wrangled connected Thursday (December 25, 2025) implicit the governmental affiliations of the suspects successful the Sabarimala Gold Theft case.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan sparked the enactment connected Wednesday (December 24, 2025) by seeking answers from the Congress leadership, showing the premier suspect, Unnikrishnan Potti, and his “accomplice” successful the offence, Govardhan, a jeweller from Bellary successful Bengaluru, alongside Sonia Gandhi astatine her high-security residence successful Delhi connected an unspecified date.
Mr. Vijayan had said it was antithetic that the suspects could breeze into Ms Gandhi’s residence, which is inaccessible to adjacent elder Congress leaders, including Assam Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma, who subsequently defected to the BJP, similar respective others, aft “feeling spurned”.
The photographs showed the existent United Democratic Front (UDF) convenor, Adoor Prakash, past Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) president, Prayar Gopalakrishnan, Congress person Anto Antony, MP, alongside Ms Gandhi and the accused persons. Mr Vijayan highlighted the photograph showing Mr Potti tying a thread connected Ms Gandhi’s wrist.
The CPI(M) has weaponised the photographs successful the aftermath of the civic polls, which saw the UDF riding to triumph connected an emotive run powered by provocative parodies implicating the Left Democratic Front (LDF) authorities successful the Sabarimala golden theft.
Mr. Prakash stated that helium would person distanced himself and besides Ms Gandhi if helium had known astir Mr Potti’s “criminal intentions.
In contrast, Mr. Prakash alleged that the photographs of Mr Potti with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan showed a adjacent bond. “Mr. Vijayan is seen whispering into Mr Potti’s ear, perchance giving him carte blanche to tally Sabarimala affairs, helium said.
The CPI(M) State Secretary said the photograph circulated by Congress, showing Mr Vijayan whispering successful Mr Potti’s ear, was “fabricated” utilizing AI to sow doubts among voters. He said the fabricators were connected a slippery ineligible slope and that the instrumentality would drawback up with them soon.
Mr. Govindan noted that Mr. Potti was a imperishable fixture astatine Sabarimala during the UDF regime. “The UDF gave escaped rein to Mr Potti and his likes successful Sabarimala, helium added.
