Chandy Thanks CPI-M For Maintaining Peace During Siege

16 August 2013
Thiruvananthapuram

CPI-M organized one of the biggest sieges in the state with more than 50,000 workers crowding in a three sq km radius of the secretariat, the state government’s seat of power, from dawn on Monday.

Its leaders cried from roof tops that “not even a fly” would be allowed inside the secretariat; that siege would continue till Chandy quit after announcing a judicial probe into the solar scam, in which, according to the Left, his office had a major role to play along with the con-couple that had duped numerous investors of Rs.7 crore after promising them solar panels.

More than a dozen TV channels telecast the siege live and a few skirmishes were also reported between the comrades and the police force, but better sense prevailed among the top leaders of the Left and things were brought under control.Chandy called a press meet to announce that since the police probe into the cases charged against the con-couple was over, he was prepared for a judicial probe, as promised by him ever since the scam surfaced in June.

His offer, however, came with a rider that neither he nor his office would come under the ambit of the judicial probe.The Left, viewing this as the best opportunity to wriggle out, went into a huddle. Soon, CPI-M state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, in a speech extending close to half an hour claimed victory and decided to call off the siege while declaring that the struggle would continue till Chandy quit.

But Chandy did not do anything to rub salt into the wounds of the Left leaders. Rather, he complimented the opposition for calling off the siege and also thanked it for maintaining law and order during the 36-hour stir.”I am certainly open and if they can come with evidence to link me or my office, it will be considered but if they are interested only in politics, it will not be accepted,” Chandy maintained.

Source– http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/kerala-solar-scam-chandy-wriggles-out-thanks-to-left-kerala-newletter-113081600229_1.html

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