4 months ago
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: Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State committee said the Congress has beaten a hasty retreat connected the Sabarimala golden theft ungraded aft pictures of Sonia Gandhi with the main suspects successful the lawsuit went viral connected societal and accepted media.
CPI(M) State Secretary, M.V. Govindan, said astatine a quality league held connected Sunday (January 25, 2026) that Rahul Gandhi had reprimanded the Congress enactment successful Kerala for dragging Ms. Gandhi’s sanction into the ungraded by ill-advisedly seeking to weaponise the golden theft against the Left Democratic Front (LDF) authorities during the section assemblage campaign.
“The incriminating photographs showed the premier accused successful the case, Unnikrishnan Potti, and the idiosyncratic accused of receiving the temple’s stolen spot flanking Ms. Gandhi astatine her Delhi residence, successful the beingness of 2 Congress MPs from Kerala. The incontrovertible grounds successful the nationalist domain has enactment Congress connected the defensive”, helium said.
Furthermore, Mr. Govindan said the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe has revealed that the Congress-appointed Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) had opened the doorway for Mr. Potti to loot the temple successful conjunction with the main clergyman (tantri).
“The past Congress medication successful the TDB deemed that termite infestation had rendered the gold-plate-covered factual emblem unit successful beforehand of the temple unstable and ordered its dismantling and reconstruction. The Congress committee besides allowed the tantri to misappropriate the gold-covered equine idol atop the precocious mast. The SIT has seized the stolen idol from the tantri’s home”, helium said.
Mr. Govindan said Congress’s effort to weaponise the Sabarimala golden theft against the LDF authorities successful the Parliament and extracurricular has backfired connected the UDF. “Congress MPs gleefully sang Ayyappa ditties parodying the LDF authorities successful beforehand of the Parliament up of the section assemblage polls, lone to realise belatedly that they got the soiled extremity of the stick”, helium added.
Mr. Govindan said the Congress-BJP run had utilized the Sabarimala contention to eclipse Kerala’s strides successful development, education, health, and societal payment nether the LDF government, to immoderate advantage, successful the section assemblage canvass campaign. “The aforesaid gambit would not walk muster with voters successful the Assembly elections. There is nary anti-incumbency anger. Voters person realised that astatine slightest immoderate of them were taken successful by Congress’s lies,” helium said.
He said the Congress was casting aspersions connected the SIT’s integrity aft the probe reached the doorstep of its leadership. The UDF’s refusal to admit the High Court’s appreciation of the SIT probe was telling.
