THIRUVANATHAPURAM: Central agencies should probe coordinated efforts by CPM and state government to sabotage the probe into gold smuggling case, illegal drug trade and corruption in Kerala, opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala has said.
He said on Friday that the National Investigation Agency should probe the conspiracy hatched from the office of the chief minister to sabotage the gold smuggling crime case which is having an anti-national angle. The attempt began with setting fire to the files in the protocol office in general administration department, and the purported voice clip of Swapna Suresh is a continuation of this attempt, he said.
A constitutionally elected government trying to topple constitutionally formed bodies cannot be accepted under any circumstances, and this amounts to challenging the constitution and law, Chennithala said.
When fire broke out in the sensitive protocol section, the government said it was due to a short circuit, but now it has turned out in the forensic report that the short circuit did not cause the fire. But police tried to sabotage these findings and an IG-ranking officer threatened the forensic officials. But the final report of the forensic laboratory also has said the fire was not due to the electrical short circuit, leaving the question of who lit the fire unanswered, Chennithala said.
He said the vigilance probe into Life Mission case, removal of files by the vigilance in connection with the probe into the case, statements made by M Sivasankar and Swapna in the court that the agencies are forcing them to give statements against the chief minister etc are nothing but attempts to sabotage the probe. The latest audio clip that is being circulated in the name of Swapna Suresh is also an attempt to save the chief minister, he said.
KPCC president Mullappally Ramachandran also said the audio clip is intended to destroy the trustworthiness of the central agencies probing the cases and demanded that a comprehensive probe is required to bring out the truth. He said chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan is on the same path as that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in destroying the constitutional bodies.