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Cong-led Oppn raises PPE kit, brewery scams in Kerala Assembly
The Statesman Bhubaneswar
|January 23, 2025
The Congress-led Opposition on Wednesday accused the Kerala government of graft.
Led by veteran Congress legislator, Ramesh Chennithala, the Opposition accused the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan-led government for engaging in massive corruption deals involving PPE kits and the sanction for a new brewery unit in Palakkad to a controversial liquor company whose director was in jail in the Delhi excise policy case.
Chennithala raised this in his speech on the floor of the Assembly and said whatever the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India brought out in its report about the purchase of PPE kits in 2020 (when the Covid pandemic struck hard), is exactly the same issue that they raised a few years ago.
The CAG report revealed that PPE kits which were available for Rs 550 per piece were not purchased and instead more expensive ones were purchased at a cost of Rs 1,550 per kit, which caused a loss of Rs 10 crore to the government.
This story is from the January 23, 2025 edition of The Statesman Bhubaneswar.
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