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Senior Congress person Ramesh Chennithala connected Wednesday (February 25, 2026) accused the Kerala Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) of orchestrating a monolithic postulation of idiosyncratic information from authorities employees, calling it a “blatant lawsuit of information theft” and a large governmental conspiracy.
At a property conference, helium released a missive revealing that the Chief Minister’s Officer connected Special Duty (OSD) had directed departments to manus implicit delicate information, including information from SPARK (Service and Payroll Administrative Repository for Kerala), a web-based strategy for authorities employees.
According to Mr. Chennithala, “shocking details” person emerged from the correspondence, sent by Sreeram Sambasiva Rao, the Chief Minister’s OSD, connected December 31, 2025. “The missive directed each authorities departments to compile Excel sheets done the K-SMART exertion and taxable implicit details of officials by February 12, 2026. It sought broad idiosyncratic information, including names, telephone numbers, and occupation details of authorities employees,” helium pointed out.
Mr. Chennithala besides described the incidental arsenic “the largest information theft ever”, portion besides insisting that it “could not person occurred without the Chief Minister’s nonstop knowledge.”
He besides alleged that the determination was politically motivated, aimed astatine the upcoming Assembly elections and that it constituted “a blatant violation” of Supreme Court directives arsenic good arsenic the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023. “Despite each these stipulations, the Chief Minister has secured idiosyncratic details of pensioners, entrepreneurs, small-scale businessmen, and authorities employees — an bonzer situation,” helium added.
Mr. Chennithala besides warned that the authorities could effort to taxable an affidavit to the High Court portion deliberately leaving retired the missive helium had made public. “My petition to the High Court is that it should initiate a suo motu lawsuit against the OSD, the Chief Minister, and the Chief Secretary,” helium said.
The missive sent by the OSD outlined a program to found a ‘Centralised Notification Hub’ for authorities services and requested the idiosyncratic details of authorities employees for this purpose. Under the guidance of the IT Mission, the Information and Public Relations section was directed to instrumentality the programme, with each information to beryllium submitted via email to the Assistant Mission Coordinator.
The missive further stated that the accusation would beryllium utilized to nonstop real-time notifications done SMS, email, WhatsApp and dependable messages, arsenic good arsenic unified messages nether the sanction ‘Government of Kerala.’
