BJP channelled unaccounted money into Kerala during poll campaign: Pinarayi

Opposition seeks truthful probe into movement of BJP’s election funds

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday told the Kerala Legislative Assembly that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had channelled unaccounted money into the State during the 2021 Assembly election campaign. The Chief Minister was replying to an adjournment motion moved by Congress legislator Shafi Parambil. Mr. Parambil had demanded that the House discuss the case to ensure a truthful police investigation into the alleged movement and subsequent highway robbery of “BJP’s unaccounted election funds” at Kodakara in Thrissur on April 3, merely three days prior to the Assembly polls on April 6. Mr. Vijayan said the BJP had laid down a smokescreen of lies against the previous Left Democratic Front (LDF)government to cloak its illegal influence-creation operation fuelled by unaccounted money. The Congress had amplified the BJP’s false messaging, parroting the lies spread by “unprofessional” Central investigators, Mr. Vijayan said, without specifying the UAE gold smuggling controversy that dogged the previous LDF government at the fag end of its term.