CPI(M) State Secretary M.V. Govindan said Congress legislator Mathew Kuzhalnadan had unwittingly offered the LDF government an early and welcome opportunity to clear its name by getting rapped by an anti-corruption court for moving a baseless and politically motivated false complaint of corruption and nepotism against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his daughter, Veena Vijayan.
Mr. Govindan said the judge summarily threw out Mr Kuzhalnadan’s plea for a court-monitored vigilance investigation into the latter’s much-touted insistence that a Kochi-based mining company had contracted Ms. Veena’s IT consultancy for a sizeable monthly retainer as a quid pro quo for Mr. Vijayan’s nod for acquiring “excess land” to quarry for rare minerals in Alappuzha district in contravention of Central government norms.
The court observed that Mr. Vijayan had not favoured the company in question. The Chief Minister had referred the company’s representation to the Industries secretary for appropriate action. The court went further, stating that it could not even imagine the Chief Minister having a corrupt intention.
