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Kuruvilla ready to resign as MLA

KOCHI: Public Works Minister T.U. Kuruvilla is ready to resign as member of the Assembly.

If his Kerala Congress (J) party asks him he would be happy to put in his papers as MLA, Mr. Kuruvilla, who has been elected to the Assembly from Kothamangalam, told news persons at Perumbavoor on Monday.

At any rate, he was seriously thinking of keeping away from ‘active participation’ in the Assembly until the judicial inquiry into the land scam in which he was allegedly involved was over. He would discuss this with the people in his constituency.

Mr. Kuruvilla was in Perumbavoor, ahead of his resignation from the Cabinet later on Monday evening, to open a function at St. Mary’s Jacobite Church, Thuruthipally. This was his last formal function as Minister.

He claimed that no accusation of any sort had been raised against him as Minister.

The land scam was the product of a conspiracy between the Kerala Congress (Secular) leader P.C. George and the industrialist with whom his (Mr. Kuruvilla’s) son had a land deal, he said.

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