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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Kerala president Rajeev Chandrasekhar has demanded that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan notation the probe into the Sabarimala golden theft lawsuit to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
“If the Chief Minister has adjacent an iota of shame and sincerity, helium should manus implicit the probe to the CBI,” Mr. Chandrasekhar said astatine a property league connected Thursday (February 5, 2026).
He was accompanied by Sabu M. Jacob, president of Twenty20, the Kitex Group-backed governmental outfit that precocious joined the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
Mr. Chandrasekhar alleged a conspiracy to “sabotage the probe and weaken the case”, thing helium said helium had predicted arsenic aboriginal arsenic October 3.
Expressing distrust successful the peculiar probe squad (SIT) of the police, Mr. Chandrasekhar questioned whether the unit nether Mr. Vijayan, who is besides the Home Minister, would person the courageousness to analyse CPI(M) leaders, including Ministers, allegedly progressive successful the case. When pointed retired that the Kerala High Court had expressed restitution with the SIT’s investigation, helium countered, “If the Chief Minister has thing to hide, wherefore not notation the lawsuit to an autarkic agency?”
‘A lawsuit of constabulary and thief rolled into one’
Mr. Jacob echoed the criticism, describing the SIT arsenic “a lawsuit of constabulary and thief rolled into one,” since the constabulary are “not autarkic of” the government.
He argued that the tribunal had not conducted an autarkic probe but had relied connected documents provided by the SIT. “Just arsenic I person challenged immoderate investigative bureau to probe oregon record a lawsuit against maine to beryllium alleged FEMA violations, wherefore not the Chief Minister notation this lawsuit to the CBI?” helium asked.
Mr. Jacob further called for removing politicians from the medication of places of worship and handing power implicit to devotees.
Mr. Chandrasekhar dismissed claims that Kerala was ignored successful the Union Budget. He cited a 38% summation successful taxation devolution to the State and a much than 100% emergence successful grants-in-aid to ₹26,500 crore arsenic proofs. He accused the Kerala authorities of sabotaging a imaginable ₹600 crore concern for an Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) infirmary successful Kollam.
He besides blamed the authorities for Kerala not being allocated an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), questioning wherefore the Chief Minister failed to rise the substance with the Centre during his aggregate visits to Delhi successful the past six months.
Mr. Chandrasekhar assured that the Centre would widen afloat enactment to the projected high-speed obstruction task erstwhile the elaborate task study is completed.
