The Left Democratic Front (LDF) on Tuesday weaponised the High Court’s recent observation questioning the public interest nature of Leader of Opposition V.D. Satheesan’s high-profile plea seeking a CBI inquiry into the execution of the ₹1,500 crore Kerala Fibre Optic Network (KFON) project to portray the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) as pro-corporate and patently anti-State.
LDF convener E.P. Jayarajan said, damningly for the Opposition, the HC Division Bench doubted in open court whether Mr. Satheesan had camouflaged a “publicity interest litigation” as a “public interest litigation”.
He said the court seemed irked that Mr. Satheesan had based his plea on a tender notification promulgated in 2019 instead of furnishing admissible evidence about any actual wrongdoing on the government’s part.
