Overview
- The Congress leader’s open letter, released Tuesday, posed ten questions to Pinarayi Vijayan ahead of the April 9 Assembly election.
- Venugopal alleges the Chief Minister met Union Home Minister Amit Shah privately in Delhi and hosted a closed‑door breakfast with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at Kerala House, while also querying reported meetings with Nitin Gadkari outside Delhi.
- He suggests a quid pro quo in which central agencies slowed inquiries, citing repeated adjournments in the SNC‑Lavalin case and questions over the Exalogic matter, gold and dollar smuggling probes, the Kodakara hawala case, and the status of an ED notice to the Chief Minister’s son.
- He questions state decisions that favored Centre‑run programs, including joining the PM SHRI schools scheme over CPI objections and moving on central labour codes with higher trade union registration fees, and he challenges the protection of ADGP M. R. Ajith Kumar and reports of a BJP meeting mediated by spiritual leader Sri M.
- News outlets report the accusations as Venugopal’s claims and note no formal response or independent confirmation so far, a gap that could shape voter views on transparency and the state’s ties to the Centre.