CPM Leader's Brother in Visa Racket!!! Brother of P.Shashi, the controversial Secretariat meber of CPM has been attacked a mob of 200 plus people who were cheated in a visa racket. According to reports from Kerala, P.Satheesh, brother of Mr.P.Shashi has collected Rs.50,000 from about 30 people promising job in Sohar/Muscat Oman. The CPM leader has disowned his own brother by making a press statement that he did not have any relation with the accused for the last fifteen years. The accused claimed that he was cheated by a Mathew from Kottaya, who has allegedly absconded with the money. The secret visit of CPM leaders to Gulf countries had already raised question marks. While another state secretariat member was spotted in the Gulf quite often (even now), the IT trained son of a senior most leader was spotted in Abu Dhabi working for a leading business tycoon. While they frequent the Gulf in one pretext or other. Kerala Politicians Throng Gulf Countries with Hidden Agenda Gulf Becoming Hotbed of Kerala Group Politics DUBAI – Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, Pinarayi Vijayan, E.P.Jayarajan, Paloli Mohammed Kutty, Vellappalli Nateshan, K.C.Venugopal, G.M.Benathwala, Cherukkulam Abdullah, E.T.Mohammed Bashir, C.P.Mohammed, Thiruvanchur Radhakrishnan, Pandalam Sudhakaran, R Balakrishna Pillai and Tom Vadakkan.....the list is not about prominent politicians from different parties in Kerala, but prominent politicians who have been camping in the Gulf region in the last couple of weeks. It appears that the Gulf region becoming a hotbed of Kerala politics. While Vellappally Nateshan and K.C.Venugopal cannot see eye to eye on many issues including the knotty Devaswam board issue, these leaders have onething in common: they are all here with some mission! Even though an era of adult franchise and democracy is just starting in the Gulf region, expatriate politicians from the South Indian state of Kerala are omni present in Dubai and other Gulf cities. Within a short span of one month, a number of prominent of politicians from the left, center and right parties of the most politically actively Indian state have visited Gulf countries in one pretext or the other. With the state assembly elections coming soon, political observers feel that the common agenda of the politicians is fund raising from the relatively affluent overseas expatriate community. Keralites form the single largest expat community in the Gulf countries with mushrooming number of associations and political groups. While the CPI M big wings like State Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, State Secretariat Members Paloli Mohammed Kutty and Kodiyeri Balakrishnapillai have been in the Gulf region with their own special agenda, the Muslim League Minister of Education E.T. Mohammed Bashir, former Minister Cherkkulam Abdullah and the State leader Benattwala were camping in Dubai to participate in the UAE national day programmes of Kerala Muslim Cultural Centre (KMCC). Throughout the year, League leaders and ministers are omni present in the Gulf with their private and official visits. When the firebrand opposition leader V.S.Achuthananthan was invited by a social organization here to visit Dubai and receive an award in the name of veteran communist Late E.M.S.Namboothirippadu, Pinarayi Vijayan, the CPM general Secretary did not “permit” him to participate in the programmes because it was organized by a “rebel” group who deserted he main CPM group in Dubai. As part of the Achuthananthan-Pinarayi factionalism in the state CPM, the party wings in different Gulf countries have reported groupism. Pinarayi Vijayan was recently in Kuwait for two days to participate in the anniversary celebrations of KALA, Kuwait Art Lovers Association. Pinarayi's Kuwait visit was reportedly to sort out division of KALA into two rival groups. CPM leaders are in different Gulf countries on the basis of reports received from the informal party organs. They frequent Muscat to sort out class war in the Oman chapter of Kairali, another CPM support group. CPM leaders are in different Gulf countries to minimize the V S Achuthananthan influence. Kodiyeri is in Dubai as part of the pre election “campaign” and crisis management within the party’s overseas organs. Paloli Mohammed Kutty was in Bahrain with a mission to canvass participation in a development seminar being planned by the CPM in the state capital. The rouge party leaders want to change the negative perception that CPM is against all kind of developments in the state. CPM is trying to woo Gulf based investors to the state. With the CPM likely to form the next government after assembly polls, this overseas public relation exercise assumes added importance. “Kerala politicians do regularly visit the Gulf countries to participate in various programmes. They have their relatives or business interests,” said a political observer. Many leaders from infighting fractions of the Congress camp have been camping in Dubai and other Gulf countries for various programmes. The Indian National Congress members include Tom Vadakkan, All India Congress Committee (AICC) Secretary, Thiruvanchur Radhakrishnan State Irrigation Minister and a few other ruling party MLAS like C.P.Mohammed from Pattamby. Thiruvanchoor Radha-krishnan, Minister of Irrigation, Forest and Parliamentary Affairs of Kerala attended the Indian Social Club (ISC) Malayalam Wing’s Keralotsavam celebrations in Muscat. Many congress leaders frequent the Gulf capitals with their private and public programmes. Tom Vadakkan, the official AICC representative participated in the cultural programme organized by Priyadarshini Dubai, a Congress supporting expatriate association. Following the vertical split in the Indira Congress in Kerala and the desertion of K.Karunakaran and his son K.Muralidharan to form a new party, Democratic India Congress (Karunakaran), a considerable number of Priyadarshini members formed rival organization with the same name. In the group struggle that ensued the rival faction officially “suspended” the rebel groups, and the rebel groups retaliated by expelling the parent association. In cultural programmes, look alike of Murali are incorporated to jib at the rival factions. P.Murali is scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia soon and other leaders like Vellappalli Nadeshan, the SNDP Yogam President too is likely to visit the Gulf with their own secret agenda. There is a common belief that the Gulf region is the main route for converting the black money from India for election funding. Even the former Naxallite leaders like P.Venu and K.N.Ramachandran have recently visited the Gulf to participate in some programmes. While the climate here is getting cooler, the Gulf region is becoming a hot bed of Kerala politics. Indian Worker from Ajman Missing for Two Months Painter of Furniture Company vanished after collecting Salary SHARJAH – A 42 years old Indian expatriate, Ismail M.T.P, painter of a Hamriya Free Zone furniture company has been missing since September 29, the day when he reportedly went to work and collected his monthly salary of about Dhs.2000. The brother of the missing man, friends and other relatives have been trying to locate the man who lived in Ajman for about 18 years before mysteriously disappearing two months back. The employer of the missing worker initially reported him as absconding and later changed its police complaint to a man missing case. A police complaint (No.05/7553/22/2) was registered with the Buhaira Police Station in Sharjah, he said. But still now there is no trace of the missing man. Married to Nafeesa with two children, Ismail went to his work place on Thursday morning and collected his payment. His brother Khadir says there was no major problem haunting his brother to abscond from work. “We have no feedback from the police station and his mobile phone (Mobile # 5674378) has been switched off ever since he disappeared. I came to know about his disappearance from Moidu, father in law of the missing brother who was working in a cafeteria here. My brothers friends called up the cafeteria and informed about his disappearance. Moidu who was in Kerala got the message and called me,” said the brother who works as an accountant with a spices trading company in Sharjah. “We don’t have more information about his whereabouts. We only know that he has not been coming to work. We have reported it as an absconding case,” said one representative of Haseeb Rasoul Furnishing Company, who evaded further questions by saying. “I don’t have more information and time to talk.”. About 400 employees work for the furniture company based in Hamriya Free Zone. Islamail was working as a painter. He used to live with other workers in the company’s labour accommodation near the factory in Ajman. “We don’t know where he disappeared. On 29th he went to the company and collected his salary. He was working as a painter and the labour accommodation is near the factory in Ajman,” one of his colleagues told Evening Post. “As usually he went to work in the morning. He collected his one-month salary. Four month salary was pending and he owed about Dhs.4000 to someone in the company. He was part of a chit fund run by workers,” says another colleague who lives in the same premises where Ismail was living. “He had minor financial liabilities, which could be easily adjusted with the pending payment and other potential benefits from the company He had been working for 18 years in the same firm,” he added. “He is definitely not absconding because he has several friends and relatives here. He did not call up any of them for the last two months. He did not call up his family back home. During the Ramadan or Eid he used to call up every friends to greet them. This festival he did not contact any one,” added the colleague. Missing Ismail hails from Kankol in Payyannoor Kerala. His family and friends continue to search for the man who has been mysteriously missing for the last two months. However they have not complained to the Indian Embassy or the Non Resident Keralites association. Member of a social organization has been approached to trace the missing man. Chief Minister Ommen Chandy with the wife of Naushad and Daughter. An intensive diplomatic effort is on to stop the eye for an eye verdict by the Saudi Court.

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