Kuttanad MLA and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Thomas K. Thomas on Monday lodged a complaint with State Police Chief Sheikh Darvesh Sahib alleging that his rivals in the party had hatched a conspiracy to kill him.
Mr. Thomas said that former NCP working committee member and businessman Reji Cherian devised the murder plot with the assistance of Thomas Kuruvila, who was the MLA’s driver until a few months ago. Mr. Thomas alleged that Mr. Kuruvila had been paid by the conspirators to provide information about his movements. The idea was to kill the MLA by pushing him off his vehicle into a waterlogged field while travelling through the interior parts of Kuttanad, the complaint reads.
Mr. Thomas who is at loggerheads with the State NCP leadership said the plan was to eliminate him and facilitate a bypoll in the Kuttanad Assembly constituency. He said that Mr. Cherian had been working against him ever since he became the MLA.
