Thiruvanantha-puram: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, facing pressure to resign over the solar panel scam, told the media here yesterday: “Sorry, but I am not going to resign.”
“I do have the highest regard for the judiciary and unlike some others, for me it’s same even when it does not favour me. Am sorry, it is you (the media) that wants my resignation, but am not going to resign,” said Chandy.
The Kerala government has ordered a probe into the dealings of Saritha S Nair and her live-in partner Biju Radhakrishnan, who are under arrest for having defrauded several investors on the promise of providing solar panels at subsidised rates.
Telephone call records of Nair show she was in frequent touch with members of the chief minister’s personal staff.
The Left opposition and the electronic media say the only way out for Chandy is to quit.
The Left has begun indefinite protests at all 13 district headquarters and the state secretariat here, demanding his resignation.
IANS
