UDF, LDF Competing for Scams: In Kerala, Amit Shah Hits Out at Pinarayi Vijayan Over Smuggling Cases Union Home Minister Amit Sh...

UDF, LDF Competing for Scams: In Kerala, Amit Shah Hits Out at Pinarayi Vijayan Over Smuggling Cases

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday slammed Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan for calling central probe agencies as political tools of the BJP-led NDA government and asked him to make it clear whether the main accused in the gold and dollar smuggling cases worked in his office or not. Speaking at the culmination of the BJP’s rally ‘Vijaya Yathra’ at the Shanghumugham Beach here, he also sought to know if the Chief Minister’s Office tried to influence the customs officials in the case.

The chief minister is alleging that the central agencies are acting as political tools (of BJP-led NDA government). I would like to ask a few questions. I want to ask the CM if the Dollar/gold scam main accused was working in his office or not?”, he asked, referring to Swapna Suresh, who has been arrested in connection with the cases. Suresh was removed from a post in the Space Park project under the Kerala State Information Technology Infrastructure Ltd after her name cropped up in connection with the gold smuggling through diplomatic channel last year.