UDF slams LDF as IUML MLA held in Kerala flyover ‘scam’

A week after the opposition UDF kicked off its campaign for the upcoming Kerala civic body elections with the slogan ‘One vote against corruption’, an IUML MLA who was the PWD minister under the previous UDF government was arrested in a corruption case on Wednesday.

V K Ibrahim Kunju was arrested by the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) in a case related to the construction of a flyover along the national highway in Kochi. He was arrested from a private hospital in Kochi a day after he was admitted and was later remanded to judicial custody.

LDF convener and Kerala CPI(M) acting secretary V Vijayaraghavan justified the arrest, calling it a “judicious decision” taken after “completing all formalities”.