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United Democratic Front (UDF) convener Adoor Prakash recovered himself caught successful the transverse hairs of the Sabarimala golden theft ungraded again connected Friday. The latest contention swirls astir photographs of him accepting a screen and 2 ‘goodie bags’ from Unnikrishnan Potti, the premier accused successful the case. The photographs, which emerged successful the nationalist domain, were of chartless provenance and date.
The latest contention was against the backdrop of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) spotlighting Mr. Potti and different suspects calling connected Congress person Sonia Gandhi astatine her residence successful New Delhi, with 2 Congress MPs, Mr. Prakash and Anto Antony, successful tow, daring the UDF to sermon the substance successful the Assembly alternatively of “wantonly disrupting” the sitting connected Wednesday.
Mr. Prakash told reporters successful Delhi that helium was the unfortunate of a governmental witch hunt. He said Mr. Potti was his constituent and the pictures were respective years old. Mr. Potti, helium said, had called connected him successful Bengaluru. “The screen contained a wedding invitation letter. The bags had a fewer sweets and dates, which I instantly distributed to those present. It was not currency oregon loot arsenic speculated by definite mischievous sections of the media,” helium added.
Mr. Prakash said immoderate “paid witnesses” had cited that helium was a regular visitant astatine Mr. Potti’s location astatine Pulimathu, Thiruvananthapuram. “I mightiness person attended immoderate societal functions specified arsenic marriages and birthdays astatine Mr. Potti’s location successful the institution of different elected representatives and Congress leaders”, helium said.
‘Wrong yardstick’
Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan said photographs of Mr. Potti with Mr. Prakash were nary impervious of culpability successful the golden theft lawsuit arsenic touted by the LDF to screen its guilt successful the case.
“The LDF is applying the incorrect yardstick. A fashionable vlogger contracted by the Tourism section to beforehand Kerala arsenic a vacation destination was aboriginal arrested connected charges of spying for Pakistan. The UDF had nary lawsuit that the State Tourism Minister was blameworthy of the woman’s crime. In contrast, the UDF defended the Minister’s innocence,” helium said.
Mr. Satheesan said Mr. Potti was photographed alongside Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. “Such is nationalist life”, helium said. Mr. Potti was contiguous erstwhile Mr. Vijayan flagged disconnected an ambulance. The conveyance was donated to assistance Sabarimala pilgrims astatine a nationalist relation successful beforehand of the authorities Secretariat.
