THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With just days left for assembly polls in the state, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday suffered a jolt when TV channels began airing documents that reveal he was aware of the decision allowing US-based firm EMCC to engage in the manufacture of boats and big ships, besides handing over the deep sea fishing activities off the Kerala coast.

Documents that have surfaced on Thursday clearly indicate that Vijayan's office and his staff were kept informed about this deal by concerned officials and his office had responded to it.

The documents that surfaced on Thursday include the File document which indicates that the CM's office was aware of the agreement signed between KSINC and EMCC to manufacture 400 trawlers and screenshots of a Whatsapp chat between KSINC Managing Director N Prasanth and Dhinesh Bhaskar, Additional Private Secretary of the CM which shows hat Prasanth had informed the CM's office about the agreement before it was signed.

Ever since Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala brought out details of the deal in the public domain, Vijayan has time and again washed his hands off it and has said neither he nor his office has any clue of it. He had come out with his stock statement: " I do not know anything."

Incidentally, this issue has rocked the Vijayan government as this had caused huge resentment among the fishing community in the state and the Latin Church came out with a pastoral letter condemning Vijayan.

However as usual, when this question was posed to Vijayan, on Thursday he brushed aside by saying that isn't it natural for any officer to respond to a message when he is informed about it and that's all that has happened.

"The release of these documents all points out to a conspiracy behind this. A 'big' officer has played a role in it. Everything will be revealed in the probe," said a peeved Vijayan and expressed his displeasure about the question being raised.