Saturday, January 24, 2009

Remove Pinarayi from party post, BJP

Kannur, Friday 23 Jan 2009: BJP State president P.K. Krishnadas has urged the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau to remove party State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan from his post after his name has been reportedly figured as one of those to be named as accused in the SNC Lavalin case.

Krishnadas said that the report submitted by the CBI to the court after completing the investigation into the case reportedly included Vijayan, who had been Electricity Minister when the Kerala State Electricity Board concluded the contract with the Canadian company SNC Lavalin for renovation of three hydro-electric projects in Idukki, as one of the accused in the case.

Preliminary investigation conducted by the CBI over the past two years had revealed huge financial irregularities in the contract, he said adding that the contract had been completed in defiance of legal procedures. The contract had not led to generation of a single additional unit of electricity, he pointed out.

The BJP leader said the CPM leadership should explain Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan’s statement on Wednesday that the CBI’s attempt to frame Mr. Vijayan in the SNC Lavalin case would be dealt with politically. The party also owed an explanation to the public as to how the “pay-off” from the contract had been spent. He also wondered if the CBI had delayed its report so long because of its earlier support to the United Progressive Alliance government.

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