Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader P.K. Krishnadas has alleged that Chief Minister Oommen Chandy was involved in secret discussions with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) leadership during the tenure of the previous United Democratic Front (UDF) to subvert the proposal for a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the murder of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) leader K.T. Jayakrishnan.
Mr. Krishnadas said at a press conference here on Friday that despite the assurance given by the then Chief Minister A.K. Antony on the BJP's demand for a probe by a special agency into the murder, it had been subverted as a result of a secret understanding between Mr. Chandy and the CPI(M) leadership to protect the accused in the Jayakrishnan murder case. The BJP had demanded the CBI probe in the wake of the remark in the judgment of the fast track court at Thalassery in August 26, 2003 that the conspiracy angle of the murder case be probed by a special agency, he said.
To repeated questions to disclose the name of any CPI(M) leader with whom Mr. Chandy had held the alleged secret meeting, the BJP leader said that further details regarding the ‘conspiracy' would be disclosed later. He denied that his allegation was in response to Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Ramesh Chennithala's charge that the CPI(M) and BJP were fostering an unholy political nexus in the State.
