The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have ratcheted up their campaign to put the government in the dock by seeking to connect Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s office (CMO) with the alleged corruption in the acquisition and installation of Artificial Intelligence-enabled traffic offence detection systems spanning highways and arterial roads across the State.
Congress and BJP leaders held back-to-back press conferences on Tuesday to spotlight the controversy centred around Keltron’s lucrative ₹232-crore contract award to a Kozhikode-based private firm with “questionable expertise” in the field. They pegged the suspected loss to the exchequer at ₹100 crore.
Muslim Youth League activists marched with woven baskets in Ernakulam, threatening to mask the cameras if the government hung back from ordering a judicial inquiry.
