After UDF Chief Whip PC George, now Kerala Chief Minister Omman Chandy and Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishan is under fire for meeting Gujarat agriculture minister Babubhai Bokhiria and his 14 member team who were on a visit to Kerala for organizing BJP's promotional activities in the state ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.



Chief Minister Omman Chandy admitted seeing Gujarat minister and his team but denied having talked politics with him. Earlier on December 12, Gujarat minister told media in Vadodara that the delegation visited Omman Chandy on December 11 and handed over a letter written by Modi on the upcoming "statue of unity" project to him. The minister had also said that Chandy had shown keen interest in the project.



Pictures of Omman Chandy receiving a memento from the Gujarat minister and Home minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishanan having lunch with the minister along with BJP state president V Muraleedharan at Mascot hotel in Thiruvanthapuram were leaked to the media on Monday evening.



"The delegation led by Gujarat minister reached Kerala for promotional activities of BJP ahead of Lok Sabha election," clarifies BJP state General Secretary K Surendran to India Today. The team spent five days in Kerala and had done ground work for the "run for unity" organised by BJP on December 15. The delegation comprised of Gujarat Tourism Corporation MD Sanjay Kaul, Gujarat Tourism Commissioner IP Jadeja, the member of Sardar Vallabhai Patel Rashtriya Ekta trust, besides other officials and six MLAs.

UDF Chief Whip PC George waving a T-shirt with pictures of Modi on the back and front. UDF Chief Whip PC George waving a T-shirt with pictures of Modi on the back and front.

Interestingly, the team also had IAS officers who had previous stints in Kerala in order to make the mission easier for BJP. Incidentally, UDF Chief Whip PC George landed up in trouble for flagging of "run for unity" marathon and for releasing a T-shirt embedded with the picture of Narendra Modi on last Sunday.But V Muraleedharan, state president of BJP told media that he does not have any knowledge about the T-shirt embedded with Narendra Modi's picture as no such T-shirt was released in any other part of Kerala. George was seen waving this T-shirt to the assembled crowd during the programme at the request of someone on the stage.Though Chandy denied having talked anything related to politics, Gujarat minister Babubhai Bokhiria on last Thursday stated to media that Chandy expressed keen interest in Gujarat government's statue of unity project. The 182 metre statue of Sardar Vallabhai Patel is coming up on an island on Narmada River at an estimated cost of Rs 2,074 crore.The foundation stone for the project was laid by Narendra Modi on October. Though Gujarat government denies any political motive behind the construction of Sardar Vallabhai Patel's statue, insiders says that it is a well planned strategy by Narendra Modi to undermine the importance of Nehru-Gandhi family in Congress. It seems state congress leaders have fallen into the well laid trap of Gujarat Chief Minister.