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The State authorities has nary relation successful the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids connected the location of Leader of the Opposition and CPI(M) Polit Bureau subordinate Pinarayi Vijayan, Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan said. Addressing a property league present connected Friday, helium said that the allegations raised by CPI(M) leaders regarding his gathering with Prime Minister Narendra Modi are ridiculous.
“The ED is simply a Central agency. Some of the respondents successful the lawsuit had gone to the High Court to forestall the investigation. The HC rejected the petition and allowed the ED to proceed the investigation. What is the relation of the State authorities successful this? How tin you archer them that they cannot investigate? We are not the competent authorization to accidental that. If the CPI(M) thinks it is simply a governmental case, they tin attack the court,” helium said.
‘A superior crime’
He said that the bureau had not informed the State authorities anterior to the raids oregon aft its completion. The Home Minister had foreseen the possibilities of a instrumentality and bid concern and deployed a constabulary force, whose tactical involution prevented the concern from getting retired of hand. “The onslaught connected the officers who came present for the probe is simply a superior crime. The authorities volition instrumentality stringent enactment truthful that specified tendencies are not repeated,” helium said.
Mr. Satheesan said that the gathering with Mr. Modi was a courtesy telephone and attempts to link it to the ED raids are laughable. Just similar Chief Ministers earlier me, I met the PM aft assuming complaint arsenic the CM. This was my archetypal idiosyncratic gathering with him. If CPI(M) leaders are to beryllium believed, erstwhile I met him, I asked him to behaviour a raid connected the Leader of the Opposition, which was done the precise adjacent day. My proposal to the CPI(M) leaders is not to underestimate the communal consciousness of Malayalis. The Leader of the Opposition came retired aft the raids and pointed fingers astatine Rahul Gandhi, but ne'er uttered a connection against the PM oregon the BJP,” helium said.
Mr.Satheean sought to differentiate the allegations against Mr.Vijayan’s girl T.Veena and those against different governmental leaders including from the Congress for accepting funds from the CMRL. “All the governmental parties person accepted funds from businesses similar the CMRL. But successful this case, the CMRL had transacted immense amounts with Exalogic which had not provided immoderate lawsuit services, which points to wealth laundering,” helium said.
He rejected allegations that helium was moving distant from answering questions from the media regarding the ED raid implicit the past 3 days. “Some quality channels person been claiming that I did not reply questions adjacent though they asked maine 12 times. Just similar you person the close to inquire questions, I besides should person the close to springiness the reply astatine a clip of my choosing, aft studying each the issues,” helium said.
