New Delhi, Thursday, January 22, 2009: CPM General Secretary has refused to comment on the latest development regarding the SNC Lavalin issue and rumours that the CBI has framed former Electricity Minister and CPM State Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan in this regard. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sought the Kerala Governor’s sanction to prosecute CPM state general secretary and Politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan in the SNC Lavalin corruption case.
Pinarayi Vijayan who was then the Power Minister signed a deal with SNC Lavalin c Canadian firm, for renovating three hydel projects.
The CBI submitted a progress report on the case yeserday and revealed that it has sought the Governor’s nod to prosecute a former Minister and some bureaucrats.
It has been alleged that Pinarayi, as electricity minister, was instrumental in granting the deal to SNC-Lavlin at high rates, overlooking the low rates of state-owned BHEL. As part of the deal, the Canadian firm promised to give Rs 98 crore to the Malabar Cancer Centre, but the money didn’t materialize.
The scam came to light after a CAG report quantified the loss suffered by the exchequer as a result of the deal. In January 2007, the HC, acting on a PIL, had ordered a CBI probe into the scam.
The development places the faction-ridden Kerala CPM in a tight spot, with CM V S Achuthanandan emerging stronger within the party.
Meanwhile, the chief judicial magistrate court issued a contempt notice to Pinarayi in connection with the Kiliroor sex scandal case.
- By KOL News , Written on January 22, 2009
Pathetic. Poor man Karat makes big noise on anything in the US and applauds all things about China. When his unit is burning in Kerala, he is tongue tied. Shame man. Is he a leader or a passive observer like a “karanavar” of decaying “tharavad”?
See what’s happening in his tharavad. A wayward CM, a corrupt and law breaking party secretary, a party MP praising Narendra Modi day and night implying the wastage of having to live with CPM.
If tongue-tied, Karat ji do some action; Disband the Kerala Unit and identify a few sincere leaders who can really re-build the party and shoe away the loot and scoot Kannur brigade who have made party a band of killers and plunders of public money.
Also dump the senile CM and give him a news readers job in Kairali TV so that his antics are kept alive for some more time.
Communists have never been loyal to our country. Their loyalty always lay elsewhere. During the 2nd World, while India was struggling hard to drive the British out of the country under Gandhiji’s leadership, they supported the British, following political diktats from their master, the USSR. During our border war with China, their loyalties were suspect and most of them were rounded up by Nehru’s Home Minister Gulzarilal Nanda. EMS was left out, not because the government cared much for him, but because it wanted a spokesperson to be out in the open for it to gather vital clues on their underground activities. While negotiating the Nuclear Deal with the United States, they withdrew support to the UPA government proving once again their extra-territorial loyalties. High time, we banned these agent provocateurs!