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The Directorate of Enforcement connected Wednesday (May 27, 2026) concluded its hunt astatine the residence of Leader of the Opposition and erstwhile Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s Pandalayamukku successful Kannur.
The raid astatine Mr. Vijayan’s location began astir 7.30 a.m. and continued for respective hours.
According to the Mahazar prepared aft the inspection, nary documents related to the lawsuit were recovered from the residence.
Workers' protest
As ED officials came retired of the Kannur house, Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] workers gathered outside, raised slogans and shouted astatine the officials successful protest. The concern turned tense arsenic protesters blocked the officials from leaving the country for immoderate time.
Party leaders were aboriginal asked to intervene and guarantee a harmless transition for the officials. CPI(M) person M.V. Jayarajan appealed to enactment workers to disperse and let the ED squad to leave.
Large-scale protests had erupted extracurricular Mr. Vijayan’s residence soon aft the raids began. The demonstrations aboriginal dispersed crossed Kerala.
'Joint enactment by CPI(M)-Congress'
Senior CPI(M) person P. Jayarajan alleged that the ED raids linked to the CMRL-Exalogic lawsuit marked the opening of a “joint operation“ by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress against the Left successful Kerala.
After visiting the residence of Mr. Vijayan astatine Pinarayi successful Kannur, Mr. Jayarajan accused the cardinal bureau of acting astatine the behest of the Sangh Parivar. He alleged that the probe squad had obtained support from the Kerala High Court to proceed with the probe adjacent earlier the Delhi High Court delivered its verdict successful the Exalogic case.
Describing the ED arsenic an” other section of the Sangh Parivar,” Mr. Jayarajan said the raids were portion of a politically motivated effort to people leaders opposing the BJP. “The Congress leaders themselves are victims of the ED. This is simply a caller section successful the malicious effort to implicate leaders who reason the Sangh Parivar successful mendacious cases,” helium said.
'To weaken the Left'
Mr. Jayarajan claimed that Kerala remained a “protected land of secularism” and alleged that the Sangh Parivar’s strategy was to weaken the Left successful bid to found dominance successful the State. He accused the Congress of helping make an anti-Left atmosphere. “The raids volition beryllium fought politically arsenic good arsenic legally,” helium said.
The CPI(M) person further alleged that the removal of the Left governments from powerfulness elsewhere successful the state was portion of a deliberate governmental strategy. According to him, weakening the CPI(M) was indispensable for the Sangh Parivar to summation power successful Kerala. “To found dominance successful Kerala and destruct the bastion of secularism, they indispensable archetypal interruption the CPI(M)," Mr. Jayarajan said.
