Won’t quit, ready to face probe: Oomen Chandy

Mr. Chandy said the setting up of an effluent treatment plant at State-owned Travancore Titanium Products Limited was based on a directive from a SC-appointed monitoring committee.

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Friday turned down the demand for his resignation and said that he was ready to face any investigation in the Titanium corruption case.

Addressing mediapersons here, Mr. Chandy said the setting up of an effluent treatment plant at State-owned Travancore Titanium Products Limited was based on a directive from a Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee.

“It was a project taken up with good intention to help the workforce of a key manufacturing unit by averting its imminent shutdown,’’ he explained. Mr. Chandy said the name of Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala was dragged into the issue and asserted that he had played no role in the entire episode.

“Mr. Chennithala was neither the KPCC president nor an MLA at that time. His name was intentionally dragged into the issue based on a mention by the expelled Congress leader K.K. Ramachandran,’’ he said.