Advocate General of the state of Kerala is a political appointee for the period of the ruling government. He is normally an experienced senior advocate chosen for the post considering his knowledge, experience, loyalty and attachment to the ruling party. His job is mainly to advise government on legal matters and act as head of an army of lawyers to represent govt in court cases. Hence it was not surprising when he delayed legal advice on SNC Lavlin case for more than three months so that Election will be over. After the voting for Election in the state, he again took about one month to give his advice as expected. Nobody can expect him to advice to proceed against his party boss, Pinaray Vijayan whatever he might have done by exercising his legitimate right to loot the country during his period as minister of the state.
Several earlier ministers like K. Karunakaran, R.Balakrishna Pillai, and T.M.Jacob have all escaped being caught and punished for corruption while being in office. If not for doing corruption and amassing wealth why these capable persons come to politics instead of taking up much difficult jobs in their earnest effort to becoming extremely rich
Look at what happened in SNC Lavlin case. It is not Pinaray Vijayan who found SNC Lavlin Company based at Canada to do renovation work for old Electrical power generation houses. It is another minister in opposing camp of UDF who brought SNC Lavlin to Kerala. But the poor fellow lost power by the time he could do anything to make money by playing with SNC Lavlin. So naturally Pinaray Vijayan used the golden opportunity gifted to him by the opposition camp.Trichy based public sector Bharath Heavy Electricals Limited has offered to do the renovation works for those old power generation houses at a meager Rs.100 crores.CPM party committee headed by dead and gone E.Balanandan has recommended to accept offer of BHEL.Then SNC Lavlin has given a counter offer of Rs.347 crores for the same work. Naturally the work has to go to SNC Lavlin as BHEL cannot give any kickbacks being an Indian public sector company. Now I can predict one thing quite confidently even though I am not an astrologer. Pinaray Vijayan will happily have the last laugh just like our old Rajiv Gandhi laughed away Bofors bribe case and even his Italian benami Mr.Quttrochy is now freed by CBI as an innocent.
When you are a politician you can only be an innocent whatever you may do. Opposing CPM ruled state of Kerala when Kunjalikutty of Muslim League was caught in a sex scandal. In spite of their public outcry against each other politicians see to it that people belonging to their tribe ruling or opposition never get caught in any cases of looting or other scandals. So they can do all these laughing loudly with the firm belief that in spite of verbal opposition and outcry to mislead general public, they will help each other to ensure that the holy politicians never get caught for any wrong doing. May be that is why all big criminals try to enter politics to continue their criminal deeds with impunity
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