No Cong-CPI(M) nexus in graft case: Ramachandran

Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran today refuted allegations that there was a CPI(M)-Congress nexus in the SNC Lavalin graft issue.
"State Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has already reacted to the allegations," he told reporters here when asked about the discharge of CPI(M) state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan from the case.
Chandy had said there was no deal between the Congress and CPI(M) on the matter.
"I respect judiciary and the CBI special court discharging Vijayan from the case. However, people have anxiety about it. I also share the same anxiety," he said.
A CBI court in Thiruvananthapuram had on November 5 dropped CPI(M) Kerala secretary Pinarayi Vijayan and five others from the list of accused in the case dating to mid-1990s when he was power minister in the LDF Ministry.

Ramachandran said a probe was going on in the reported meeting of a CPI(M) leader P Mohanan, remanded in connection with a political murder, with his wife Lathika, MLA, in a hotel while being taken for a medical checkup recently here.
"The probe is going on. Wait for the police report," Ramachandran said.