Kasaragod (Kerala):The Kerala BJP on Saturday hit hard at the ruling LDF and opposition UDF alleging that not just Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's daughter's IT company but leaders of the both fronts had also accepted "illicit" money from a Kochi based minerals company. Hours before launching the party-led NDA's statewide foot march in this district, BJP state chief K Surendran said if a thorough investigation is carried out, the "dirty face of corruption" of leaders of the rival fronts would be exposed.
Dragging the Congress-led UDF into the raging row involving the minerals' company, he said the grand old party cannot raise a voice against corruption in many cases as their leaders are also involved it it. Attempts were being made (by the ruling CPI-M) to trivialise the issue regarding the transactions between the CM's daughter's IT Company and the minerals firm, Surendran further charged.
"We cannot trivialise the issue as an incident about a minerals company giving crores of rupees to the chief minister's daughter's IT firm....it has great dimensions. A relevant moral question is why a minerals company has given money to the officials and ministers of the state," he said.
A controversy erupted in Kerala recently over some financial transactions between the Kochi-based private minerals company and CM Vijayan's daughter Veena and her now defunct IT firm. A section of the media also reported quoting documents that the company had dealings with top leaders of both the ruling CPI(M) as well as the opposition Congress-led UDF.