Thiruvananthapuram: Former Speaker P sreeramakrishnan And former minister Katie Jalil has strongly denied the allegations against her. Swapna SureshHe is the main accused in the gold smuggling case. While Sriramakrishnan said dream Was inventing the allegations from the air, Jaleel termed his statements as baseless and inconsistent.
“There is no college in Sharjah as Swapna claims. No land has been allotted. She is only repeating old allegations. I have no personal relationship with Sharjah Sheikh and United Arab Emirates Consulate General. Will anyone believe that I tried to bribe the Sheikh and the Consulate General of Sharjah,” he said, reacting to allegations that he had bribed the UAE consulate and gave a piece to his friend He had tried to influence the ruler of Sharjah to help capture land for the establishment of a college in Sharjah.
KT Jalil said that she did not play any role as Swapna had claimed in giving d.lit. to the Sharjah ruler. “In 2014 the University of Calicut decided to honor the Sharjah ruler with D. Litt in view of his scholarship and scholarly contribution. But I was not a minister then. It was Abdu Rabb who was the Minister of Education at the time. I became Higher education minister only in 2018. Abdul Salam was the vice-chancellor of Calicut University during that period. He is now a BJP leader,” Jalil said. He also rubbished allegations that FlyJack Logistics owner Madhav Warrier is his benami. “She’s a good friend of mine but what this woman is saying is absolutely nonsense,” he said.
Jaleel alleged that FlyJack Logistics has registered a check bounce case against Swapna’s new employer HRDS and this could be a new trigger to drag her into the controversy.
The leaders of the Shiksha Bachao Abhiyan committee said that Jalil’s claims regarding giving D.Litt to Sharjah Sheikh were not entirely true. The university had decided to confer an honorary degree to Sheikh during the UDF tenure in 2014, but did not follow through on the Centre’s approval. It was the LDF government that brushed off the proposal in 2017. Jalil, although he was not the education minister then, was in charge of the Sharjah ruler’s visit in his capacity as Norka minister, he said.
“There is no college in Sharjah as Swapna claims. No land has been allotted. She is only repeating old allegations. I have no personal relationship with Sharjah Sheikh and United Arab Emirates Consulate General. Will anyone believe that I tried to bribe the Sheikh and the Consulate General of Sharjah,” he said, reacting to allegations that he had bribed the UAE consulate and gave a piece to his friend He had tried to influence the ruler of Sharjah to help capture land for the establishment of a college in Sharjah.
KT Jalil said that she did not play any role as Swapna had claimed in giving d.lit. to the Sharjah ruler. “In 2014 the University of Calicut decided to honor the Sharjah ruler with D. Litt in view of his scholarship and scholarly contribution. But I was not a minister then. It was Abdu Rabb who was the Minister of Education at the time. I became Higher education minister only in 2018. Abdul Salam was the vice-chancellor of Calicut University during that period. He is now a BJP leader,” Jalil said. He also rubbished allegations that FlyJack Logistics owner Madhav Warrier is his benami. “She’s a good friend of mine but what this woman is saying is absolutely nonsense,” he said.
Jaleel alleged that FlyJack Logistics has registered a check bounce case against Swapna’s new employer HRDS and this could be a new trigger to drag her into the controversy.
The leaders of the Shiksha Bachao Abhiyan committee said that Jalil’s claims regarding giving D.Litt to Sharjah Sheikh were not entirely true. The university had decided to confer an honorary degree to Sheikh during the UDF tenure in 2014, but did not follow through on the Centre’s approval. It was the LDF government that brushed off the proposal in 2017. Jalil, although he was not the education minister then, was in charge of the Sharjah ruler’s visit in his capacity as Norka minister, he said.