Kerala BJP secretary VV Rajesh, Prabhulla face party's ire on scams
This led the BJP leadership to strip Krishna from organisational roles.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAMP: BJP State secretary V. V. Rajesh has been stripped off his organisational duties for his alleged role in the medical college scam where the internal commission report was leaked to the media. Yuvamorcha State general secretary Prabhulla Krishna has also been stripped from his duties over printing bogus receipts during the BJP national council meeting held in Kozhikode last year.
Party sources told DC that Rajesh, who belongs to the rival V. Muraleedharan camp, was informed by BJP State president Kummanam Rajasekharan over the phone of the central leadership’s decision. Kummanam was unavailable for comments.
BJP State general secretary M. T. Ramesh had raised before the central BJP leadership that action should be taken against those leaders who had plotted to implicate him in the medical college scam. Ramesh had alleged that the Commission led by party vice president K. P. Sreesan and State secretary A. K. Nazeer had failed to keep their findings secret.He had also alleged that Rajesh ensured that the report was leaked to the media.
Incidentally, Ramesh had handed over the complaint with the proof of the report sent to Rajesh from Nazeer’s email id from his computer at his hotel in Kochi.
Sources close to Rajesh told DC that he had been wrongly implicated in the medical college scam. Rajesh has allegedly told his close party colleagues that only five party leaders were aware of the inquiry commission appointed by Kummanam – Kummanam himself, Sreesan, Nazeer and the two general secretaries in the BJP from the RSS camp – M. Ganesh and R. Subhash.
“Rajesh would have to receive the inquiry report from one of these leaders. Instead of taking action against them, Rajesh has been falsely implicated in the medical college scam”, said a source close to Rajesh.
The central leadership found that certain BJP leaders based in Kozhikode, M. Mohanan and Prabhulla Krishna had resorted to printing bogus receipts and had allegedly collected Rs 10, 000 - Rs 50, 000 from traders amounting to several crores. This led the BJP leadership to strip Krishna from organisational roles.
