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Take lead to bring out real facts, Achuthanandan told

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI, JAN. 22. The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) vice-president, A.C. Jose, has demanded that the Leader of the Opposition, V.S. Achuthanandan, take the initiative to bring out all the real facts behind the Suryanelli and ice-cream parlour sex scandal cases in the light of the allegations that the cases were sabotaged during the previous LDF Government rule.

In a statement today, he said that the former Special Public Prosecutor in the Suryanelli case, G. Janardhana Kurup, and the former Director General of Prosecutions (DGP) Kallada Sukumaran had come out with harrowing experiences they had when they dealt with the Suryanelli case and the ice-cream parlour case respectively.

He alleged that it was the political secretary of the former Chief Minister E.K. Nayanar who had sabotaged the two cases. The women's associations and CPI(M) leaders, who were demanding filing of appeals in the Suryanelli case, were trying to forget these realities.

The attempts by the Left leaders to influence the law enforcers had brought disgrace to the people of the State. Since it had been proved that the CPI(M) leaders had directly or indirectly exerted influenced in the cases, they were bound to tender a public apology. He said that the women associations owing allegiance to the Left parties should block the CPI(M) leaders on the roads if they were really sincere in their actions.

CPI(M) criticised

By Our Special Correspondent adds from Thiruvananthapuram: The KPCC general secretary, Kodikkunnil Suresh, today questioned the moral right of the CPI(M) to ask the Government to go in appeal against the Kerala High Court verdict in the Suryanelli sex racket case.

Mr. Suresh told a news conference that the CPI(M) had no right to place any such demand before the Government after having used the case to make political capital out of it. The person who had ultimately been punished in the case was also a local leader of the CPI(M) and this has exposed the party further, he said.

The party leadership has to clarify whom the people should believe.

The clash within the CPI(M) over the issue only showed that the party was incapable of providing free and fair governance, he said.

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