ADGP at centre of Kerala’s Thrissur Pooram storm removed from key post day before Assembly session

The merchandise besides said that authorities constabulary main Darvesh Sahib and a squad led by him had submitted reports to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected the controversies related to Kumar.

Kumar’s removal from the cardinal station came a time earlier the Assembly league is scheduled to commencement successful Kerala. The Congress-led Opposition, and adjacent those from the ruling CPI(M)’s confederation spouse CPI, person been demanding the removal of Kumar, who is known to beryllium a adjacent confidant of CM Vijayan.

The enactment is seen arsenic an effort to weaken the Opposition’s protestation against the Chief Minister, who they impeach of harbouring the serviceman contempt him facing allegations related to the botched behaviour of Pooram this year. The authorities action, however, has not extended to removing the serviceman from the constabulary department.

Among the allegations by the Opposition involving Kumar and the CM is the assertion that the officer’s gathering with RSS wide caput Dattatreya Hosabale successful 2023 was meant to support Vijayan’s interests. Kumar had met Hosabale successful Thiruvananthapuram on with an RSS person from Kerala, and had not specifically informed the authorities Home Department astir it. The authorities ordered a probe into the incidental past period erstwhile the Opposition raised the issue.

The issues related to the behaviour of Thrissur Pooram, which came conscionable days earlier parliamentary elections were held successful the state, has been cited by galore arsenic 1 of the reasons for the BJP winning Thrissur constituency, the party’s lone Lok Sabha spot from Kerala.

In April, the authorities authorities had ordered a probe by Kumar into the Pooram debacle, and Kumar submitted a study connected it successful the past week of September.

On introspection of the report, the authorities recovered lapses connected the portion of Kumar, who was camping successful Thrissur astatine the clip of the festival, but allegedly did not intervene to guarantee its creaseless conduct. When constabulary restrictions connected assemblage absorption led to the winding up of the rituals, BJP campaigner Suresh Gopi’s melodramatic involution led to the resumption of the festival events. The Cabinet had besides ordered a probe by the constabulary main into the lapses of Kumar.

Independent legislator P V Anvar, who had snapped ties with the CPI(M) recently, had besides raised superior allegations against Kumar. Anvar had alleged that Kumar had links with golden smuggling gangs and that helium had got radical killed. The ADGP is besides facing a Vigilance probe for allegedly amassing wealthiness disproportionate to his known sources of income.