Vigilance should be dissolved: VS Achuthanandan

KOCHI: The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) in the state should be dissolved as it is functioning as an agency to save the ministers involved in corruption scandals, said opposition leader V. S.  Achuthanandan here on Tuesday.

Home minister Ramesh Chennithala should go home and rest after dismantling the Vigilance, he said in response to the latest observation made by the High Court on the functioning of VACB in connection with the bar bribery case.

The charges leveled by the opposition that the Vigilance was working for burying the evidence and saving the ministers has been proved right, he said referring to the observation of the court.

Sankar Reddy was appointed as VACB director with ulterior motives, Mr Achuthanandan said, adding that the state government and the Vigilance are not bothered about comments made by the judges.

Meanwhile, CPM politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan told reporters in Kannur that the condition of the Vigilance is worse than that of the caged parrot.

Home Minister Chennithala should respond to the observation made by the court, he added.

 

CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has described the remarks by the high court as an indictment of the vigilance. He also said that the vigilance will not prove any cases under the administration of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy. Justice Kemal Pasha of the high court the other day has observed that vigilance was not vigilant in the bar gate scam.