Swapna allegations were leveled against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his family, IAS officer Sivashankar, former ministers TM Thomas Isaac, Katakampally Surendran and former Speaker P. Sriramakrishnan.
Thiruvananthapuram: The CPM has taken the stand that it does not need to respond to the allegations leveled against senior CPM leaders including Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, accused in the gold smuggling case, Swapna Suresh. The CPI, the second major party in the Left Front, also agrees with this position.
Swapna made allegations against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his family, IAS officer Sivashankar, former ministers TM Thomas Isaac, Katakampally Surendran and former Speaker P. Sriramakrishnan. However, the position of both the parties is that action is sufficient only on the basis of the credibility of the allegations and the person who made them. Their position is that only the allegations that Swapna has been making for a long time are still leveled against the Chief Minister and his family.
At the same time, a woman filed a case alleging physical violence and harassment against Congress MLA Eldos Kunnapilil. They also opine that the situation is not related to Swapna’s allegations. However, the opposition parties, including the Congress, are of the view that the CPM cannot shirk its moral responsibility to answer the allegations against those in positions of power. Congress leaders also point out that when the case came against their MLA, they asked for an explanation and suspended him. However, they criticize the CPM as failing to fulfill such a moral responsibility.
Last day, KPCC leaders demanded that a case be registered based on Swapna’s allegations. They accused the CPM, which had filed cases against its leaders based on the allegations made by the accused in the solar case, Saritha, and is keeping silent by saying that she is the accused in the Swapna gold smuggling case. Pinarayi Vijayan and CPM, who find credibility in the allegations of Solar case accused Saritha and are still hunting the opposition leaders, are criticizing that it is a double standard to say that there is no credibility in the allegations of Swapna, the accused in the gold smuggling case.