The solar scam, a political bombshell that rattled the Oommen Chandy government in 2013 and continued to make waves for years, has seemingly resurfaced with a vengeance to bedevil Kerala’s ruling front and the Opposition alike.
A retired journalist salvaged the controversy from near political oblivion by suggesting in an article that the Left Democratic Front’s mammoth siege of the government Secretariat in August 2013 demanding Chandy’s resignation was a political charade.
He claimed political deal-making and behind-the-scenes manoeuvring preceded the protest, which saw thousands of Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers with little access to basic facilities squatting on the road and sleeping rough around the Secretariat for nearly a day.
