Saritha S Nair: How can one trying to become Prime Minister behave this way?

Adding more colour to the battle in Rahul Gandhi’s second seat of Wayanad, Saritha S Nair, an accused in Kerala’s solar panel scam, has announced her candidature from there as an independent candidate. She will be contesting from Ernakulam constituency as well where Congress MLA Hibi Eden, Union minister Alphonse Kannanthanam of the NDA and CPI(M) district secretary P Rajeev are the other candidates. Earlier, Saritha had accused Hibi of molesting her. Saritha said that she has decided to contest in order to expose the real face of some candidates. 

In Wayanad, apart from Congress candidate Rahul Gandhi, Saritha will be battling NDA candidate Thushar Vellappally and CPI candidate PP Suneer.

Earlier, Saritha had made serious allegations of corruption and sexual exploitation against a number of Congress leaders. She said to media that she had sent many letters to Rahul Gandhi complaining against 12 of the Congress workers. But Rahul Gandhi refused to take action, she said. She questioned, “How can a person, who is trying to become the Prime Minister, behave this way to a woman?”

Saritha also added that she is not contesting the election to become an MP, but is contesting to shame those, who abused and levelled criminal charges against her.

Saritha and her partner Biju Radhakrishnan led the multi-crore solar energy investment fraud, which rocked the then-Chandy govt in 2013.

—With Agencies input