Kerala Will Decide When To Appear Before Police: Tainted Kerala BJP President K Surendran On 'Hawala' Money Case
ABP NewsThiruvananthapuram: A day after the Kerala Police reached state BJP President K. Surendran's residence and served a notice to him to appear before the team probing the case of the alleged hawala money that reached the state ahead of the April 6 Assembly polls, he said on Saturday that he will decide on what needs to be done next. "The CPI-M cadres are presently caught in the midst of numerous gold smuggling cases and it has now reached the state party headquarters in the state capital and to divert attention they will be up to all sorts of tricks and hence I am not the least worried about this notice," added Surendran. The BJP's Kerala unit was caught on the wrong foot when a person filed a complaint with the Thrissur rural police that an amount of Rs 25 lakh which he was carrying in his vehicle to pay as advance money for a land transaction was stolen from him on the Thrissur-Kodakara highway in April. Ever since this row broke out, the national leadership is peeved especially when reports surfaced that tribal leader CK Janu's party JRP received Rs 10 lakh from Surendran, for returning to the BJP-led NDA.