Tainted Sunilkumar not in CPI district executive panel
E.M. Sunilkumar is facing allegations of seeking Rs 50 lakh as bribe
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-04-18 06:21 GMT
KOCHI: E.M. Sunilkumar, facing allegations of seeking Rs 50 lakh as bribe for filling wetland at Thanthonni Thuruth was not included in the newly constituted district executive committee of the Communist Party of India. The party has also set up a 3-member committee to probe the allegations and asked the committee to submit a report within 15 days.
CPI secretary Kanam Rajendran told reporters in Kochi on Friday that the party will probe matter and appropriate action will be taken. Sunilkumar, a former CPI councilor of the Kochi Corporation, negotiating with a builder for money for filling up the paddy land at Thanthonni was aired by a television channel. The conversation of Sunilkumar also exposed the alleged involvement of CPM leaders at local level in taking bribe for permitting filling up of paddy land in many parts of the district.
According to Sunilkumar former Indian cricketer Kapil Dev had abandoned a medical township project at Charianthuruthu near Kadamakudy following a local CPM leader named as Vijayan insisted on a large amount as bribe.
Sunilkumar asking for Rs 50 lakh as bribe had rocked the district committee meeting of the party on Friday. Sources said that the exposure of Sunilkumar was the handiwork of a section of the party members fed up with the shady deals by a few party leaders. KJ Jacob, opposition leader in Kochi Corporation belonging to CPM, has said that the party will examine the allegations raised against its leader.
The involvement of local leaders of the two communist parties in shady land deals came at a time when the organisational report of the CPM presented at the ongoing party congress in Vishakapattanam had lamented about a section of party members are having links with real-estate mafia in the state.