Pinarayi Vijayan, a typical south Indian name...thats what I thought when I heard that name for the first time. But wait, there is something more to this name. This name is so powerful that a controversy related to that threw the current chief minister of Kerala, Mr. V.S. Achuthanandan was thrown out of politburo, of which he has been a member since...hold your breath 1985..thats 24 years...Wow...thats amazing...so what is it that really caused the ousting of VS??
For understanding that, lets go sometime back, when Pinarayi was a state electricity minister of the kerala government in 1998. The 3 hydroelectric power stations were to be upgraded to serve the state with better infrastructure. So the usual procedure started of declaring the project, inviting the tenders and so on....There were 2 major contenders for the project, a canadian company called as SNC Lavalin and an indian bidder in the form of BHEL and L&T consortium. But for the first time in the history the project was awarded to the HIGGEST bidder; SNC Lavalin. So how much did that cost to the state exchequer?? A whopping Rs. 374,50,00,000. Lets try to make that amount more readable...its Rs. 374.50 Crs.
So when the CAG report found that there is a fraud in this case and has to be acted upon. It informed the central government and as a usual procedure CBI was asked to study and form the case.
The CBI finally delivered its report and put the Mr. Pinarayi Vijayan as the accused number 7 in its report. The CBI also sought permission of governor of Kerala to prosecute him. Looking at the prima facie evidence, the governor gave CBI, a go ahead.
As usual the CPI(Marxist) responded with a shock. Calling it a political agenda of the Central government and claiming that the CBI was tool in the hands of central government. Few left leaders even went on to say that a left leader with a corruption allegation was a blasphemy. But the chief minister of Kerala, V. S. Achuthanandan was not surprised at all. He called the action of governor to be in accordance with constitution. (For the time being, lets keep the rivalry between V. S. Achutananda and Pinarayi Vijayan aside)
This really irked the left leadership at the politburo. It blamed Achutanandan for giving statements against Pinarayi publicly and discovered the great fact that he was the reason for Pinarayis current problems and decided to fire him from politburo; of which he was a member since 1985. Leaving the Pinarayi untouched of all the incidents.
Isnt it rare that the person accused of something bad goes unhurt and the person who felt the action was constitutional was punished?
Anyways...for those who think he really did not amass lot of wealth and he being a left leader, has to be clean of all corruption charges....
1. His son is studying MBA in the Birmingham university paying a fee of whopping 50 lacs
Thats a lot of money considering Vijayans father was not a very rich man and he was the youngest of the 14 siblings
2. Pinarayi Vijayan is accused to have suspended few of the young comrades who tried to visit his palatial mansion
3. Vijayan is allegedly very close to the land mafia of Kerala.
What is really surprising is, Mr. Prakash Karat who openly declared that the case against Vijayan was conspiracy by central government decides to pay no heed to the other cases like this? There were even articles against Mr. Vijayan in the official party mouth piece of CPI, but is anybody bothered?
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Sad to know that politicians try to consider themselves above Supreme court.
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