Kerala: BJP to check poll fund usage
The state election committee is yet to show proper audited accounts.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: By next month, BJP national president Amit Shah is expected to send his team of officials to probe on the mismanagement of election funds allocated to the state for the Assembly elections. Highly placed sources told DC that the central leadership had granted ‘astronomical sum’ for the Kerala and Tamil Nadu Assembly elections.
The state election committee is yet to show proper audited accounts. On Monday, BJP State president Kummanam Rajasekharan and BJP general secretary M. T. Ramesh had called on Mr Shah. Party sources told this paper that a high-level committee is expected to visit the State after July 20 and will probe the alleged mismanagement of funds.
A senior leader alleged that former State president V. Muraleedharan who was the election management committee convener and BJP general secretary K. R. Umakanthan was instrumental in releasing funds to candidates.
“Central BJP leadership is convinced that there has been mismanagement of election funds as many candidates are still in the dark as to who accepted the funds in their respective constituencies,” the leader said. It has also been alleged that Kummanam, along with Umakanthan and RSS-nominee K. Subhash, has been taking decisions without taking the rest of the top leadership into confidence.