Opposition leader V.S. Achuthanandan, who proposed to quit in the wake of the FIR in the land allotment case against him, said on Friday he would not hang on to technicalities but take an appropriate decision if the vigilance chargesheeted him in another three months.
He told mediapersons that the Oommen Chandy government should realise that mafia and corrupt elements could not stop his fight against corruption and sex racket cases. “I was fully aware that my fight against the mafia will invite such cases and threats,’’ he added.
Earlier in the day, Mr Achuthanandan sent a fax to the central leadership stating that he would not like to continue in office even for a minute.
However, CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat and politburo member Sitaram Yechury advised Mr Achuthanandan against taking any hasty decision.
“The mafia believes that by filing a false case they will succeed in silencing me. It’s their wishful thinking. I will continue my fight till the last breath of my life. I don’t need to follow Thiruvanchoor’s moral values wherein corrupt ministers cling to power shamelessly. I will resign if they file the chargesheet. I have conveyed my decision to the central leadership,” Mr Achuthanandan added.
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Security hiked at border with nepal
Rajnish Sharma and Namrata Biji Ahuja
New Delhi, Jan. 13
Following intelligence alert, security along the long India-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh has been beefed up considerably. Information available with intelligence agencies reveals extensive use of money power, to the tune of several hundred crores, will be used in UP alone. The alert comes close on the heels of the EC writing to the RBI to direct the concerned banks for putting in place measures that will check misuse of money during elections. Various agencies have already seized nearly `42 crore in the state already.
Sources said there was concrete information that ISI operatives in Nepal with close links to terror outfit Indian Mujahideen had stashed large amounts of fake currency in villages close to the border. The possibility, sources added, of some of the consignments having already crossed over into India cannot be ruled out.
“These are the same operatives who had earlier figured during the busting of the Madhubani module of the Indian Mujahideen having close links with the kingpin Yasin Bhatkal,” a top intelligence official said.