Now, Kerala BJP leaders complain to Governor Arif Mohammed Khan of being targeted

Thiruvananthapuram: A delegation of top Kerala BJP leaders, led by former Union Minister and former party legislator O. Rajagopal, on Wednesday met Governor Arif Mohammed Khan to complain that the present LDF government is out to "tarnish" the party's image and "harass" its leaders out of "political vendetta".

"There is a gross abuse of police machinery by the LDF government to tarnish the Bharatiya Janata Party and to harass its leaders out of political vendetta," they said, citing how the state government appointed an SIT for conducting investigation in the hawala money case of Thrissur under the supervision of an IPS officer.

"The state Secretary in charge of CPI-M was continuously raising politically motivated and unfounded allegations against BJP and it appears that the government therefore decided to interfere with the investigation, misdirect it and to use it as a weapon against the BJP," the delegation claimed in their complaint, alleging that the new SIT comprised "handpicked officials" of tainted backgrounds and well-known to have allegiance to CPI-M.

The BJP also accused the SIT of "continuously giving motivated inputs to the media to give an impression that the money, allegedly robbed was unaccounted funds of BJP which is totally incorrect".

"The SIT has been specifically targeting the state President (K. Surendran) and making efforts to tarnish him and his family too. The state President of the party has been spearheading the campaign against the ruling front and was instrumental in leading the party in all agitations conducted against them. The Chief Minister had on one occasion, while talking to the media, had hinted that the state President will be facing retaliation. (IANS)

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