from: Ravindran P M <raviforjustice@gmail.

com>
to: CHIEF MINISTER KERALA <chiefminister@kerala.gov.in>
cc: CM Office Kerala <cmoffice@kerala.gov.in>
date: Oct 26, 2018, 10:50 AM
subject: Complaint-Sabarimala and other issues

Attention: Mr Pinarayi Vijayan, Chief Mnister of Kerala

1. Refer my e mail of 1/9/16, copy given at the end of this mail.

2. Needless to say my hopes lie shattered.

3. You will no doubt go down in the history of Kerala as the last and
worst commie Chief Minister of the State, nay, of the country itself.
Maybe for some it would make no difference whether it is notoriety or
fame that follows them.

4. I have read reports of you earlier telling media persons to get out in
the most uncouth manner. And even reminding the Prime Minister that we
have a federal system of government. And now you and your ministers are
heard telling the Thanthri of Sabarimala that they are mere employees of
the Devaswam Board. Now let me tell you that it will do you a lot of good
if you get the following facts correct.

5. We not only have a federal system of governance, we are a democratic

country too. I hope you understand what democracy means. It is rule 'of
the people, for the people, by the people' as an American President put
it. And the National Commission to review the working of the Constitution
has unambiguously stated that 'the highest office of the land it that of
a citizen'.

6. And before I go to your failures and perfidies as the Chief Minister,

responsible for all that an elected government is tasked to do, let me
place it on record that you and your ministers are our employees. Have no
doubt about that.

7. Coming to the Thanthri of Sabarimala, being an employee of the

Dewaswam Board, it is as much a fraud as the communist party did with
land reforms- took land from the then owners and distributed it to a
small group of persons and now doling out tax money to these very
erstwhile owners for their sustenance. In the case of Sabarimala too the
situation is no different. Sabarimala and the Ayyappa temple there is
older than the State, the Dewaswam Board and even your party at the world
level. The Thantri's income possibly is much lesser than what he would
have had, had not the management of the temple's affairs been usurped by
the government in a grossly unconstitutional manner and vested with the
devaswom boards. We are well aware of the misuse of the voluntary
donations of devotees to the temple by the employees of the devaswom
boards, starting with its President.

8. This complaint will not be complete without recounting some ( I repeat

some) of your gross failures during the last couple of years of
governance. In the reverse chronological order they are as follows.
9. Your visit to UAE, with your family, at tax payers' cost, with the
declared objective of motivating NRKs to contribute towards the states'
reconstruction after the floods. It appears, from reports in the media,
after your return, that you have admitted to having had talks with
business people to invest in Kerala rather than contribute to
reconstruction of the flood ravaged state. In the background of the
Global Investors Meet, hosted by the Government of Kerala periodically,
this trip was wholly uncalled for, futile and waste of tax payer' money.

10. The plans to send 17 of your cabinet collegues abroad along with a
team of about 190 bureaucrats was nothing but preposterous and we have to
thank Mr Narendra Modi led government for denying permission. I am also
wondering whether you and all the 17 ministers are redundant given the
fact that you could plan to leave the state with your unfulfilled
responsibilites of rehabilitating the victims of the flood, many of whom
are still in relief camps.

11. Even when the rehabilitation activities were at its peak, you had
left for the capital of the capitalist world, acclaimedly for treatment
of an undisclosed ailment. While health and the treatment of indivduals
are necessarily a private matter, it has to be an exception in the matter
of public servants. Like freedom of speech and organisation, though
fundmental rights under the Constitution, are denied to soldiers. In any
case the public have a right to know of your ailment for two reasons:
one, they are funding the treatment and all associated costs and two,
they have to know if you are sufficiently health to fulfill the
responsibilites that go with your assignment. The fact that you had not
even handed over your duties while being out of the State for treatment
tend to suggest that the ailment was not serious. And that also raises
the question why you had misused your office to splurge tax payers money
for a treatment that should have been availed within the State, which you
yourself had boasted was amoung the best in the country.

12. That the floods were man made and attributable to the ineptitude of
your government is no more in doubt. The involvement of the government in
the rescue and relief operations were even more condemnable. Had it not
been for the prompt and daring interventions of individuals and
unorganised groups even the death toll would have been many fold. Even at
the peak of these operations you and some of your ministers were only
seen creating controversies, including insulting the armed forces who
were here on aid to civil authorities.

13. The investigations into the sex scandals involving Bishop Franco
Mulaikkal, priests, Fathers Abraham Varghese and Jayes K George, MLA P K
Sasi have not only been unsatisfactory but also invites comparison with
the molestation case in a Malappuram cinema hall. In the latter case, the
theater owner had been arrested for an alleged delay in informing the
police. As per report in the Mathrubhumi of 5/6/18, the incident
happened in a theater in Edappal on 18/4/18. The theater owner while
going through the cctv recordings had come to know of this and reported
the matter to the police on 26/4/18. The police had not taken any action
till 12/5/18 when the information, along with the vidoe clip, was shared
with Mathrubhumi and the accused was arrested. Now, in the cases
involving the Bishop and the priests, the matter had been reported to the
Church authorities who had been sitting on it and caliming that they were
investigating into it. They NEVER even reported the matter to the police.
Finally teh victims had to go to the police themselves. And those who
supported the bishops's victims even had to stage protest outside the
High Court of Kerala before things started to move, even though at snails
pace. To the best of my knowledge the offence was one which warranted
arrest under non-bailable charges.

14. The case of MLA Sasi has still not been registered by the police,
even though the media has covered it adequately to warrant his arrest and
prosecution too. And the party is certainly entitled to make their own
investigation under party rules but not under the CrPC. If the Chief
Minister, who is also in charge of the Home portfolio and controls the
police, doesn't know this it is time that he relinquished the job on
grounds of incompetence.

15. To cut this list short, I invite your attention to the following
video reports on Youtube:

https://youtu.be/cHZTz-Rl1Vc a muslim girl to CM, Kerala

https://youtu.be/15Qws5jVPvI an advocate on judiciary, govt and faith

https://youtu.be/zEYThhjVoGo a christian on xtian women adventurers

16. You may also like to hear what Vivek Oberoi, a bollywood star, has to
say on Sabarimala. His views are at
https://www.facebook.com/100002730811315/posts/1522850971149249/

And the views of Mr K P Anil Kumar during a talk show on Mathrubhumi

channelon 20 Oct 2018 on the subject Kaval kondu kaaryamundo? Your
representative Mr Mohanan was also a participant.

17. Strictly speaking when a democraticlly elected government loses the

faith of the majority it is required to demit office and not cling on to
it claiming that they have been elected for 5 years and taking advantage
of the absence a law to recall elected representatives. If the argument
is that the ayyappa devotees and their supporters do not constitute the
majority then the challenge is to prove it by calling for mid term
elections.

Yours truly,

P M Ravindran
raviforjustice@gmail.com
26 Oct 2018

from: Ravindran P M <raviforjustice@gmail.com>

to: CHIEF MINISTER KERALA <chiefminister@kerala.gov.in>
date: Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 9:58 AM
subject: 100 days of governance!

Coming events cast their shadows before them!

These 100 days have been disappointing.

The reduction in the number of personal staff, though notional, was

welcome. One cannot understand why ministers should have more than 3
assistants as personal staff.

The decision to do away with police escort doesn't seem to have been
implemented.

The attitude towards citizens' right to know what their government is

doing is totally unacceptable.

The Kerala State Information Commission is defunct. Not that it needs

additional information commissioners to be appointed urgently. What is
needed is to ensure that the available information commissioner does his
job in the letter and spirit of the law. In fact the loss to the
exchequer due to information commissioners not imposing the mandatory
penalty can be more than the 2G, Coalgate and Vadragate put together.
While the defaulting information commissioners are liable to be
prosecuted under Sec 219 of the IPC no such action has been ever taken by
the concerned authorities. Or should we take it that the role of all
public servants is only to cheat and loot the public?

To cut the story short, the only hope I had when you took over the reins
of government was that the onus was on you to provide meaningful and
purposeful governance if your party has to retain the toe hold it has in
this nation. It seems you are not yet alive to this responsibility.

Hoping for better days!