Thiruvananthapuram: Intensifying the attack on state police chief Loknath Behera, opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala said that if UDF comes to power, the government will appoint a commission to probe the corruption in the state police led by Loknath Behera.
He said here on Monday that the government is protecting the police chief who committed corruption to the tune of crores of rupees through various purchases. For the same reason, the state police chief has stooped to such a low that he would agree to any kind of work given to him by the government. He said that the state police chief is registering false cases against UDF MLAs who are exposing the LDF government’s corruption. If the state police chief does not end this practice, he will have to pay a heavy price, Chennithala said.
He said that the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report has detailed the corruption and irregularities in the police purchases, but the government has kept the report in cold storage. In return for the government’s gesture, the police chief has registered cases against UDF MLAs V D Satheesan, P T Thomas and K M Shaji. But the UDF will not end its fight against corruption, Chennithala said.
The opposition leader said that in the wake of M Sivasankar becoming the fifth accused in the Life Mission case, it has been proven that it is the chief minister who is the first accused. People have understood that the Wadakkancherry project of Life Mission was a huge corruption and such things would not have happened without the knowledge of the chief minister, he said.
As the vigilance and anti-corruption bureau has unearthed the iPhones that were given by Unitac Builders, CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan should publicly apologize. The CPM secretary had alleged that Ramesh Chennithala was one of the recipients of the phone.