The Left Democratic Front (LDF) government's gambit to soundproof Kerala's political narrative from the jarring echoes of the 2020 UAE diplomatic baggage gold smuggling scandal seemed to suffer a setback on Wednesday.
The ruling front had allowed an Opposition-sponsored adjournment motion in the Assembly on Tuesday to draw a line under the "Congress-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sponsored muckraking to denigrate" Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his family.
However, Swapna Suresh, the prime accused in the smuggling case, reprised her allegations to inhibit the government's bid to put the issue on the back burner. Swapna's "out of the blue" appearance in front of television cameras in Kochi prompted the visual media commentariat to discuss her bitter recriminations against Mr. Vijayan. The issue is also likely to figure again in the Assembly on Thursday.
