Amid controversy over his use of an ambulance to succeed in the Thrissur Pooram venue after listening to that the pageant was disrupted, Union Minister Suresh Gopi on Thursday detailed the sequence of occasions resulting in the incident and demanded a CBI probe into your complete episode.
Gopi, the Union Minister of State for Petroleum, Pure Fuel and Tourism, whereas not refuting the allegations that he reached the pageant web site in an ambulance, claimed that he reached near the pageant web site in his automotive, which was then attacked by some ‘goondas’ of the rival political events.
The Union MoS claimed that he was rescued from there by some kids who put him in an ambulance which was there on the pageant web site to cater to these in misery.
“I don’t want to elucidate it additional. Let the CBI come and examine. Have they got the braveness to carry the CBI. Their total politics will go up in flames if it occurs. You need the reality to come back out, carry the CBI,” he stated.
He additional claimed that each one these points had been being created to cover monetary frauds just like the Karuvannur Cooperative Financial institution rip-off.
Gopi had earlier refuted the claims, together with by some BJP leaders, that he had reached the pageant venue in an ambulance.
The Thrissur Pooram disruption row has triggered a political debate within the state after Chief Minister Vijayan said that the Pooram and the opposite rituals weren’t disrupted.
Congress and the Left ally CPI have alleged that the Pooram was purportedly disrupted to assist the BJP win the Thrissur Lok Sabha seat by evoking Hindu sentiment.
There have been police interventions within the Thrissur Pooram rituals and the following controversies took the sheen off the annual spectacle held in April this yr.
For the primary time within the historical past of the pageant, the show of fireworks, one of many main sights of the occasion, which was scheduled within the early hours, was held in broad daylight the following day, which turned out to be a disappointment for the pageant buffs.
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