Former Kerala BJP leader raises corruption charges against party State general secretary M.T. Ramesh
The Hindu
Kerala BJP leader denies ₹9 crore bribe allegation for medical college recognition, questions lack of police probe evidence.
M.T. Ramesh, Kerala State general secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Friday (December 6, 2024) rejected allegations by A.K. Nazeer, former BJP State secretary, that the former had taken about ₹9 crore as bribe for securing recognition for a private medical college in Palakkad.
Mr. Nazeer, who had joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in March 2024 following his differences with the State BJP leadership, was part of the two-member committee that probed an allegation in 2017 that a BJP leader had received bribe under the guise of extending help to secure the recognition for a private medical college initiated by a charitable trust in Varkala.
Mr. Nazeer recalled that the committee report had mentioned the allegation of corruption against Mr. Ramesh in connection with the recognition of a private medical college in Palakkad. However, the then State leadership of the BJP failed to act against him, he said.
Mr. Nazeer claimed that the people behind the medical college in Palakkad had informed him that about ₹9 crore was paid to Mr. Ramesh on a reported assurance that he would help them secure the recognition from the then Medical Council of India.
In his response, Mr. Ramesh asked why Mr. Nazeer had failed to raise the allegation against him in the police probe held in the wake of the alleged corruption charges against the BJP leaders. “I had personally requested for a police investigation to clear the allegations against me. The investigating officials had dismissed the allegations after they had failed to find any credible evidence to prove it,” he said.
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