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Assembly drowns in solar scam again

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Thiruvananthapuram: The 'solar scam' continued on Friday to rock the Kerala assembly, causing altercation between the Oommen Chandy government and the opposition and forcing an adjournment of the proceedings.

Like on Thursday, when the assembly had to be adjourned following the opposition protests and demand for the resignation of Chief Minister Chandy on the charge of his involvement in the scam, acrimony between the two sides forced another adjourment soon after the question hour.

The trouble started when the treasury benches responded to the opposition raising the solar scam issue by referring to another scandal, of year 2000 vintage, to embarrass the opposition.

Leader of Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan of the CPI-M broached the solar scam through a submission when he asked Labour Minister Shibu Baby John to clarify a remark he had made on Thursday.

"Yesterday you (John) said that there is a deep rooted conspiracy behind the way the prime accused in the scam, Biju Radhakrishnan, deposed before the judicial probe commission. At one point of time, you almost disclosed the name, but at the last second, two of your cabinet colleagues refrained you from revealing. So, today we wish to know who are behind this," said Achuthanandan.

John then got up and said that at the appropriate time he would let everyone know who was behind this.

"It's for this, I said yesterday that I am also going to implead before the Commission because this has to come out. But before that I request Achuthanandan to reveal the VIP involved in the Killiroor sex scandal," hit back John.

The Killiroor sex case saw a young teenage girl being sexually assaulted in the early 2000. She later died in mysterious circumstances. Just before the 2006 assembly elections, Achuthanandan said there was a VIP behind the case and if he came to power he would take them to task.

He did nothing even after becoming the chief minister.

John's reference to Killiroor sex scandal had the entire opposition up in arms and they trooped into the well of the house, forcing Speaker N. Sakthan eventually to adjourn the proceedings for the day.

It was on Wednesday that Radhakrishnan told the commission that he had video evidence of Chandy and two of his cabinet colleagues in compromising positions with Saritha Nair.

Saritha Nair is the second accused and live-in partner of Radhakrishnan's.

The solar scam came to light in 2013 when it was found that Team Solar, a fraudulent company, cheated several influential people of crores of rupees by offering to make them business partners or by offering to install solar power units for them and receiving advance payments for the same.

The company used two women to create political contacts with links even to the Chief Minister's office.

Radhakrishnan, the main accused, and his live-in partner Saritha Nair were later arrested for cheating investors.

She is out on bail, while Radhakrishnan is behind bars after it was proved that he murdered his first wife.

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