KOZHIKODE: M V Shreyamskumar MLA has said he would donate all his land for charity if the CPM or its leaders could prove their allegations against him correct.
He said the allegation that he encroached government land at Krishnagiri was a politically motivated one.“CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan is trying to portray me as an encroacher through his recent allegations. I am prepared to donate the land for charity if Pinarayi proves his claim that the land was encroached by me, he said at a press conference here.
The MLA said that the land at Krishnagiri was allocated by the erstwhile Madras government to his grandfather Padma Prabha in 1943 under “grow more” campaign. It was bequeathed to his father M P Veerendra Kumar and subsequently to him in 1972 during the partition of ancestral property when he was only five years. “The Constitution of the country ensures every citizen the legitimate right to protect his property. I do not forfeit such a right for the sole reason that I am an MLA. Besides, it was our family which donated land for constructing buildings for the civil station and the district court in Wayanad,” he added.
He said the High Court had directed the State Government to give police protection to the land in controversy. It was also made clear by the State Govt that they would not ask him to give away the land until the case was settled in the court. He also questioned the motive behind bringing up the issue of 14.44 acres of land that he received as inheritance only after the year 2007 and said that the CPM never raised such an issue when he and his party was part of the LDF. The High Court single Bench had ordered the government to take over the land under dispute on last June 1.
Shreyamskumar had approached the SC with an appeal, asking to stay the HC order. The SC had directed the Kerala HC to settle the case within 15 days.