BJP had no role in Kodakara black money case: Surendran
The Hindu
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State president K. Surendran has said that the party is not involved in the Kodakara black money heist case. At a press meet here on Thursday, he said a section of the media and the CPI(M) had been indulging in a propaganda against the BJP in the past few days. They had deliberately created a smokescreen to put BJP in the dock, Mr. Surendran alleged. Responding to a volley of questions on the issue, he also criticised the police for ‘unnecessarily summoning some BJP leaders for questioning.’ “They had no connection with the case. Still, they had appeared before the investigating officers,” the BJP leader said.
In , the grape capital of India and host of the Simhastha Kumbh Mela every 12 years, environmental concerns over a plan to cut 1,800 trees for the proposed Sadhugram project in the historic Tapovan area have sharpened political fault lines ahead of local body elections. The issue has pitted both Sena factions against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra. While Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief, and Uddhav Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena (UBT), remain political rivals, their parties have found rare common ground in Tapovan, where authorities propose clearing trees across 34 acres to build Sadhugram and a MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) hub, as part of a ₹300-crore infrastructure push linked to the pilgrimage.












