அபூபக்கர் கிட்னி விற்பதற்கு கேரள கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சிக்கு 6 மில்லியன் லஞ்சமா?

530 மில்லியன் ரூபாய் பெறுமானமுள்ள கிட்னிகளை விற்பதில் பெரும் புள்ளி குற்றவாளியாக கருதப்படும் அபுபக்கர் தான் கேரள முதல்வர் அச்சுதானந்தனுக்கு 6 மில்லியன் கொடுத்தேன் என்று கூறினார். இதற்கு கேரளா பிஷப் அரக்கால் என்பவர் இடைத்தரகராக செயல்பட்டார் என்று கூறியுள்ளார்.

இதனை மறுத்த அச்சுதானந்தன் தான் அப்படி அபுபக்கருடன் பிஷப் மூலம் பேசவில்லை என்று தெரிவித்தார்.

பிஷப் அரக்கால், அபுபக்கர் கூறுவது உண்மைதான் என்று கூறிவிட்டார்.

உழைக்கும் பாட்டாளி வர்க்கத்திற்கு அவர்களது கிட்னிகளை விற்று விடுதலை பெற்றுத்தருகிறார்களா?

Kerala bishop remark lands Achuthanandan in a soup
Aug 2, 2007, 16:30 GMT

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 2 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Thursday landed himself in a soup after a bishop came out against the chief minister's statement that he had never met the controversial business baron Farris Abubacker.

Abubacker is a close aide of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan and chairman of the Malayalam daily Deepika.

The businessman told CPI-M controlled Kairali TV channel Wednesday that Achuthanandan had contacted him once through Kanjirapally bishop Mathew Arakkal.

Reacting to the interview, Achuthanandan, in a statement issued Thursday, said he never contacted Abubacker and that the interview was a 'conspiracy' hatched to defame him.

'Hitherto it was the Deepika newspaper that was attacking me and now a TV channel also has begun this and has entered into a conspiracy. The interview was a stage-managed act,' said the chief minister.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for bishop Arakkal said that what Abubacker had said was true and that the bishop does not want to enter into a controversy.

The CPI-M came under fire from another Malayalam daily, Mathurbhumi, recently for allegedly taking Rs.6 million in donation from Abubacker.

Last week, Achuthanandan had lashed out at Abubacker terming him a person who should be ''hated'' as he is one of the main accused in a Rs.530 million kidney racket case.

The central leadership of CPI-M has taken a wait-and-watch approach over the intensifying internal conflict in the Kerala unit of the party.

Talking to IANS, CPI-M politburo member Sitaram Yechury said: 'We are waiting for report of the general secretary (Prakash Karat) and S. Ramachandra Pillai on the Kerala situation. The politburo will come into the picture only after that report.'

The politburo had earlier suspended both Achuthanandan and Vijayan from the apex decision-making body of the party for indiscipline, which was later ratified by the party's central committee.