CPI leader Binoy Viswam demands Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation over alleged BJP ties

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar’s total subservience to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been exposed fully, following the startling revelation by the former Chief Secretary, Jiji Thomson, the State secretary of CPI, Binoy Viswam has said.

Mr. Thomson had earlier alleged that during his tenure as the Chief Secretary, Mr. Kumar had once asked him why he did not contest Parliamentary elections on a BJP ticket, saying he could have become a Union Minister. According to Mr. Thomson, the conversation had happened in 2016, while the two were travelling on the same flight to New Delhi.

In a statement here, Mr. Viswam said that by offering the lure of a Union Minister’s post under the BJP to a senior civil servant in Keralam, Mr. Kumar has proved that he is someone who is willing to stoop to any level for the BJP.