KOZHIKODE: Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala said the chief minister has not responded to any allegations of corruption raised by the opposition in the assembly. They were not allegations but facts. He charged the government for having looted the state and said no other government would do it. The opposition raised the illegal things done by the government. Five MLAs raised allegations of corruption against the government. The chief minister who spoke for three hours and 45 minutes did not reply to any of the allegations levelled, he said.

Chennithala said the chief minister did not say anything about the gold smuggling or the serious corruption in the office of the CM. He never uttered a word about his former principal secretary M Sivasankar. The chief minister did not answer a single question. He spoke about vegetation, deploying fish in lakes and ponds and recharging of wells. His speech is just a copy of the speeches of the Governor and the finance minister, criticised Chennithala.

He said the chief minister was not speaking but was reading for three hours. The rules of the assembly say that no one should read from the paper. The speaker did not say anything to the chief minister. The opposition trooped to the well of the house when a reply was not given even for the allegations written and given. None of us toppled the speaker’s chair or the computer.

The chief minister said abuse is the slogan. The people know who is hurling abuses. He should not measure others by his own habit. Pinarayi Vijayan, who called the people in the society as kulamkuthi (traitor), paranari (scoundrel) should not come to teach the opposition. It has been months since the people of Kerala passed a resolution against this government, he said.