Thiruvananthapuram: The Communist Party of India Marxist (CPM) leadership in Kerala faced a fresh volley of allegations on Friday, with a senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader alleging that the CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan’s sons were involved in running more than two dozen companies, many of them even without name boards.
The BJP state secretary, A.N. Radhakrishnan who raised the allegation at a Press conference on Friday, however, did not clarify what was wrong in registering so many companies.
CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan’s sons Bineesh and Binoy have been in the news recently, over their varied business deals in the Gulf.
The matter caught media attention when an Arab businessman visited Kerala claiming that he was trying to recover a large sum of money he had advanced to one of them.
BJP leader A.N. Radhakrishnan said that six companies registered in the names of Bineesh and Binoy Kodiyeri were functioning out of the state capital, and that 28 companies in which they had a stake were functioning out of a single building. Six of these, Radhakrishnan said, were being operated directly by Balakrishnan’s sons.
Radhakrishnan demanded to know the financial backup for the CPM state secretary’s sons to run all these companies, and alleged that several of the sons’ companies were operating in the tourism sector and were registered in 2008 when Balakrishnan was the state tourism minister.
Radhakrishnan said he would be sending these details to the federal enforcement directorate.
