Solar scam may harm Congress
Developments in Kerala over the solar panel scam are giving sleepless nights to Congress managers as this could mar the party’s prospects in the coming Lok Sabha elections.
The Opposition is unrelenting in its agitation against embattled chief minister Oommen Chandy and has demanded his resignation.
“We are worried over the situation,” highly placed party sources said when asked about the developments in the southern state where the controversy over the alleged scam refuses to die down despite the announcement of a judicial probe.
The Congress has returned back to the power in Karnataka but it has become weak in Andhra Pradesh and has not revived in Tamil Nadu. It is on a sticky wicket in Kerala as well.
The CPI(M)-led LDF Opposition in Kerala has now pressed for bringing Mr Chandy and his office under the ambit of judicial probe.
The LDF is insisting that the main focus of the terms and reference of the probe should be the chief minister and his office.
Mr Chandy, on the other hand, has accused the Opposition of raking up “political demands”. He has been saying that the Opposition has a political agenda in connection with the judicial probe in the solar case.
Charging the government with “attempting to sabotage” the investigation into the case, the Opposition is alleging that there was proof to link Mr Chandy and his office with the scam and that there was no point in a judicial probe if the CM’s office was excluded. Meanwhile, a section in the state Congress is also uncomfortable with the developments that have hit the party and the government in the state. They want the high command to monitor the situation in the state very closely and act as early as possible so that it does not affect the party’s prospects in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Senior Congress leader V.M. Sudheeran held talks with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi last week to apprise them of issues, including the functioning of the UDF government.
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