The major political parties and trade unions including the Opposition have not issued a statement yet on the corruption reported in the public sector Malabar Cements Limited (MCL) and the suspected murder of former Secretary of the company V. Shaseendran along with two of his minor sons on January 24, 2011. A CPI district secretary demanded an inquiry.
So far, the major political parties in the district have not reacted to the murder and the corruption brought out in the reports of the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau in the purchase of coal, clinker, fly ash, generator, bucket elevator and coal handling machines.
The major parties in the Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) such as the Congress, Indian Union Muslim League and Kerala Congress (Mani) issued no reaction to the incident as of this morning.
In the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF), the Communist Party of India (CPI) district secretary Vijayan Kunisseri demanded an inquiry on the suspected murder of the official and on the scams rocking the MCL.
The District secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist), P. Unni, is one of the members of the Director Board of MCL.
The BJP also did not make any comment on the happenings in MCL and the alleged murder of the official and his two children.
The two major trade Unions in the MCL, the Indian National Trade Union (INTUC) and the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) have not reacted to the developments. It may be recalled that the Malabar Cements Employees’ Association affiliated to the INTUC in a statement here on November 11, 1998 raised 14 major corruption charges against the company management.
The allegations were raised at a press conference addressed by the then President of the Association A.V. Gopinath, former M.L.A. He distributed a six-page press statement listing the corruption charges.
Corruption charges have also been made about starting an unviable grinding unit at Cherthala; buying generator for Rs.10 crore; modernization of cement mill that reduced production; import of coal when the company had Rs.76 crore worth coal stock; and installing bucket elevator spending crores of rupees that never worked.
