Tushar Vellapally holidaying with family in Bangkok
Vellapally also goes silent as microfinance row hots up
By : cynthia chandran
Update: 2015-10-28 06:23 GMT
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The SNDP Yogam guns have suddenly fallen silent against the onslaught of Opposition Leader V.S. Achuthanandan giving rise to speculations about the intentions of the Yogam leadership.
Yogam vice-president Tushar Vellapally and family have reportedly gone on a holiday to Bangkok away from the din and bustle of electioneering and the heat of the allegations against Yogam general secretary Vellapally Natesan’s micro-finance deals and his Bell chit company.
The Yogam-BJP alliance has also not taken off the way Mr Natesan expected. But BJP sources said that the duo would return to the ring to fight back after the local body elections on November 5.
Their Samastha Munnetta Yathra will be kicked off from the forecourt of Madh-oor temple in Kasargod district on November 23. Mr Vellapally said Sri Sri Ravi Shankar of the Art of Living was likely to inaugurate the Yatra.
“I am close to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and I don’t need an intermediary to finalise his trip to launch the Yatra. I have been active and on Tuesday I inaugurated a programme of SNDP Yogam at Kodakara in Thrissur district. My son has gone out of the state for three days with family,” Mr Vellapally told DC.
Sources said Mr Tushar goes on a holiday after a few weeks of work. Ever since the SNDP Yogam had decided to have an alliance with the BJP, the duo has been busy with meetings in 138 unions.
Mr Tushar’s son Dev, who is studying for his BBA in Management Development Institute of Singapore, said in a Facebook post that he was travelling to Bangkok, Thailand, on October 25.
It was not known whether Mr Tushar’s daughter Devika, who is pursuing her MBA in Australia, had joined the family holiday. Mr Tushar’s wife Asha has accompanied him and Dev to Bangkok.
Mr Vellapally maintained that since a new party was yet to be launched, there was no need for either him or Mr Tushar to remain in the state. He added that Mr Tushar had already attended over 100 SNDP Yogam meetings ahead of his Yatra.
“Vellapally and Tushar have got around five names for their new party which would highlight the issues of the majority community,” said a BJP source.