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CPI(M) counters Modi’s ‘attempt’ to tie gold case to CMO

Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] sought to counter Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “repeated attempt” to tie the politically sensitive UAE consulate gold smuggling case to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s office.

CPI(M) State Secretary M. V. Govindan said Mr. Modi’s insinuation at a recent public rally in Thrissur that “we know the office where the economic offence originated” was conniving and petty.

He said Mr. Modi had used the Prime Minister’s Office as a bully pulpit to resurrect a bare-faced lie rejected by Kerala in the 2021 Assembly elections.

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