Janata Dal (Secular) [JD(S)] national president H.D. Deve Gowda’s startling claim that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had tacitly backed his move to align with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) roiled Kerala politics on Friday. The Congress said Mr. Gowda had let the cat out of the bag by revealing the Communist Party of India (Marxist)‘s [CPI(M)] secret nexus with the BJP.
Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan said the CBI’s “dithering” in the SNC-Lavalin case in the Supreme Court and “meandering money laundering probes” against CPI(M) leaders bespoke the secret axis. He said the “clandestine covenant” also explained why the CPI(M) in Kerala strong-armed the party’s Central leadership away from becoming a constituent of the INDIA bloc coordination committee.
