CPI(M) State Secretary M.V. Govindan
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Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] Kerala State secretary M.V. Govindan has said the Enforcement Directorate (ED) “routinely issues notices during every election”, calling it “a political ploy” aimed at destabilising Kerala.
Speaking to reporters in Kannur on Monday (December 1, 2025), he said moves by the ED and other Central agencies were “not just challenges to the Chief Minister or former Finance Minister T.M Thomas Issac, but a challenge to Kerala as a whole.”
He said the agency had sent notices during previous local body, Assembly and Parliament elections as well. “The Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB), which spearheaded development projects worth ₹1 lakh crore, was being targeted despite it transforming the State’s infrastructure to global standards,” he said. Attempts to discredit KIIFB had begun long ago, he added.
According to him, the LDF government’s “mistake” was converting KIIFB – originally visualised by the UDF under former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy – into “a functional and ambitious development mechanism”, a move that people of Kerala had endorsed.
Mr. Govindan said notices had also been issued earlier in the same matter. Mr. Issac had repeatedly asked, both directly and in court, why the notices were being sent, but the ED had not provided any reply so far, he added.
Published – December 01, 2025 12:54 pm IST
