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General Education Minister and Communist Party of India (Marxist) State Secretariat subordinate V. Sivankutty triggered a governmental tempest connected Tuesday by arguing that the Kerala High Court–appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) should question Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi for hosting the premier suspects successful the Sabarimala golden theft lawsuit astatine her high-security and sparsely accessible authoritative residence successful New Delhi.
Seeking to crook the tables connected the Congress successful the Sabarimala controversy, Mr. Sivankutty said photographs showing the main accused, Unnikrishnan Potti and Govardhan, a Bellary-based jeweller, posing with Ms. Gandhi successful her surviving country alongside United Democratic Front convener Adoor Prakash and Congress MP Anto Antony pointed to an constituent of transgression culpability that warranted investigation.
The photographs, helium said, indicated the suspects’ proximity to the apical Congress enactment and exposed what helium described arsenic the party’s Janus-faced approach. “The Congress had nary motivation compunction successful shedding crocodile tears implicit the theft portion covertly stoking the choler of devotees against the Left Democratic Front authorities during the section assemblage polls,” Mr. Sivankutty alleged.
He said Mr. Govardhan was a salient jeweller from Ms. Gandhi’s erstwhile Lok Sabha constituency and that the SIT had accused him of regularly receiving golden stolen from Sabarimala. “The gathering astatine Ms. Gandhi’s residence was not happenstance. It points to an entrenched conspiracy that warrants an SIT probe. The instrumentality requires the SIT to grounds Ms. Gandhi’s statement,” helium said.
CPI(M) wide caput M.A. Baby told reporters successful Delhi that the enactment was not levelling immoderate nonstop accusation against Ms. Gandhi. “It was the Congress that dragged her into the contention by ill-advisedly attempting to politicise the High Court-monitored SIT probe. Mr. Sivankutty has not suggested that Ms. Gandhi sought retired the suspects connected her own. He has simply pointed retired that the Congress enactment brought them to her doorstep, exploiting her spot and for reasons yet to beryllium revealed,” helium said.
Responding sharply, Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan said Mr. Sivankutty had nary motivation close to invoke Ms. Gandhi’s name. “His remarks bespeak the government’s desperation successful the case. The Opposition is connected the warpath implicit the request for the resignation of Devaswom Minister V.N. Vasavan pursuing the organised theft astatine Sabarimala. It is ironic that Mr. Sivankutty who erstwhile acceptable a mediocre illustration by behaving similar a delinquent successful the Assembly and destroying nationalist spot is present successful complaint of schoolhouse education,” helium said.
On Sunday, CPI(M) State Secretary M.V. Govindan claimed that the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee was successful disarray aft it allegedly drew crisp disapproval from Rahul Gandhi for dragging Ms. Gandhi’s sanction into the controversy.
