KOZHIKODE: BJP state president K Surendran said that governor Arif Mohammed Khan could have refrained from signing the ordinance seeking to amend the Lok Ayukta Act in the first instance to express opposition of the people of the state against the anti-constitutional ordinance.
“Even if the governor had returned the ordinance without signing, he would have to sign it if the government sends it again for his assent a second time. However, the governor could have refrained from signing it in the first instance to express opposition by the people of the state against the anticonstitutional ordinance,” said Surendran, in a statement issued here on Monday.
Through the ordinance, chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan is strangling constitutional institutions and the state government has set a stage to indulge in corruption, he alleged.
“CPM is aiming to conduct large-scale corruption by destroying the anti-corruption watchdog in the state. Even LDF constituent CPI had initially come out against the ordinance after realizing this fact, but Vijayan has now made CPI tow his line,” he claimed. “It is crystal clear that the Lok Ayukta ordinance is aimed to save the chief minister. The move by the judiciary also amounts to encroachment on the powers of the judiciary,” he said.
BJP will not accept the over-exercising of power by the LDF government, and will take political and legal steps against the anti-constitutional move, said Surendran.
Surendran alleged that CPM had resorted to the ploy of using MLA KT Jaleel to target and attack the Lok Ayukta in the name of religion. He added that the people of the state were convinced that the government’s main aim was to indulge in corruption.
