Maran slammed for going to Press when the issue is sub-judice
C Shivakumar
Chennai:
Former Union Telecom and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran should not claim
that the arrest of his close aide as well as two Sun TV employees is a
vindictive action by the BJP government or RSS as it was the then UPA
government under then minister A Raja which initiated the enquiry,
said a BSNL union secretary and a former employee who played a key
role in the exposure of a clandestine operation of telephone exchange
from Maran’s house in Chennai.
Speaking to Express, C K Mathivanan, who was earlier denied retirement
benefits for allegedly gheraoing the chief general manager’s office
after former CGM and MP Velusamy, under whose tenure the alleged
allotment of 323 ISDN phone connections to former Union telecom
minister Dayanidhi Maran were made, said that the arrest has infused
fresh life into the case which has been pending for nearly eight
years.
“However, I don’t agree that an electrician or a chief technical
officer is involved in the clandestine operation of telephone
exchange. This pertains to the misuse of office by a former telecom
minister and he along with his brother should be arrested,” he
alleged.
Mathivannan, who is also the state executive committee member of
Communist Party of India, also slammed Dayanidhi Maran for holding a
press conference when the whole issue is sub-judice. “The matter is
before the court. Why is he conducting the press conference and
blaming the CBI or a ‘RSS idealogue’,” questioned Mathivannan.
Mathivannan, who is currently the state executive committee member of
CPI, said that CBI should also probe whether Maran has misused his
post by allegedly doling out favours to Sun Network in other four
southern states.
He said that National Federation of Telecom Employees (BSNL) welcomes
the move by CBI to arrest V Gowthaman, former additional private
secretary to Maran, S kannan, chief technical officer of Sun TV and K
S Ravi, electrician with television channel in Chennai.
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