All the perfumes of Arabia will not wash away corruption indulged in by Vijayan: Venugopal

TEARING into the governance by the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan-led government which has been in power for nine years, AICC General Secretary and Alappuzha Lok Sabha member K.C. Venugopal on Monday slammed the inept way things were happening in Kerala.

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"The stage has come when all the perfume of Arabia will not be able to wash away the stains of corruption indulged in by Vijayan," said Venugopal.

He said this while inaugurating the Nilambur Assembly bye-election convention and asked the people of Nilambur to ensure that everyone votes for Aryadan Shoukath, which will set the ball rolling for the exit of CM Vijayan, as the 2026 Assembly elections are round the corner. Venugopal said that by virtue of being the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, he was shocked to hear the sequence of events of what happened, when he attended the meeting held last week to discuss the crumbling of the National Highway (NH)-66 passing through Malappuram.