Thiruvananthapuram senior CPI leader PK Sreemathi on Thursday said she would approach the police against a social media campaign alleging that she was receiving a family pension in the name of the deceased MLA.
Recently, some online news portals, citing alleged RTI documents, claimed that Srimathi was receiving a family pension in the name of an MLA identified as Krishnan.
However, she claimed that no MLA by that name has been elected to the Kerala Assembly.
An emotional Srimathi rejected the allegation while speaking to reporters, saying she did not know of any legal assistance and had not received any pension for the legislators’ family.
Speaking to reporters here, the former minister said that she tried to verify this claim by asking whether such a law represents any constituency, but she was told that there is no such person.
“I don’t even know whether such a law exists or not,” she said. “Yet they are spreading rumors that I am receiving a family pension as a wife for such a law.”
Srimathi, who started her career as a teacher, said the allegations have severely damaged the reputation she has built over the past five decades.
“They are portraying me as someone who would do anything for money. The campaign is being carried out in a dirty manner through YouTube channels, visible to Malayalis across India and the world,” she alleged.
She also expressed her disappointment that no journalist had contacted her to verify these allegations over the past few days.
The veteran Communist Party leader said she had decided to file a lawsuit, describing the allegations as a serious attack on her dignity.
“My husband was a teacher. I was also a teacher and worked in schools until I was 45, teaching sixth and seventh grade math and science. People have made many false allegations about me in the past, but this crossed the line,” she said.
Srimathi said she would file complaints with the Director General of Police, Home Minister, Kerala Assembly Speaker and the Chief Minister, besides initiating defamation proceedings against those behind the campaign.
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