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The State government’s determination to renew barroom licences during the predetermination play is 1 of the biggest instances of corruption, AICC wide caput K.C. Venugopal has said.
Usually, barroom licences are renewed erstwhile each 5 years. However, going by media reports, the State authorities went up with the renewal of barroom licences adjacent arsenic the classification process by the Union Tourism section was inactive nether way, the Congress person said.
Mr. Venugopal alleged that bribes worthy crores of rupees had been collected from barroom owners for renewal of licences. The licence renewals were done successful a precise secretive mode without waiting for the classification process to beryllium completed and without adjacent publishing the details connected the website. This is an adjacent bigger scam than the erstwhile 1 wherein the moving hours of bars were extended, helium added.
He said the authorities was drowning the State successful liquor and was submitting itself to each the demands being raised by barroom owners. Mr. Venugopal alleged that the Left Democratic Front (LDF) was carrying retired the biggest predetermination run ever witnessed and that each this wealth was straight linked to the crores collected by the authorities from barroom owners.
CPI(M)-BJP ‘deal’
Mr. Venugopal called Pinarayi Vijayan a “compromised Chief Minister” and claimed that a adjacent scrutiny of the campaigner lists of the CPI(M) and the BJP would uncover that determination is simply a wide undercurrent oregon communal knowing betwixt the 2 to assistance each different during the elections.
He alleged that Mr. Vijayan was beholden to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for helium lived successful changeless panic of the ED and hence would ne'er situation to spell against the Centre.
The Congress person claimed that sensing electoral defeat, the CPI(M) has present entered into an unethical governmental knowing with the BJP and has willingly fielded anemic candidates successful galore constituencies to let the BJP to win. The BJP has returned the favour, sealing the “deal”, helium said.
Mr. Venugopal said that going by Mr. Vijayan’s intolerant responses to an mean enactment idiosyncratic asking a question and the terminology helium utilized portion referring to G. Sudhakaran, a elder person who defected from the party, it was wide that the Chief Minister had wholly mislaid his mind. Instead of correcting their leader, the CPI(M) leaders were present gathering astir to support the Chief Minister, helium added.
He claimed that the predetermination results this clip successful Alappuzha territory would bespeak a large displacement and that the UDF would triumph much seats than it is expected to.
