CPI State secretary calls Sabarimala gold theft case accused Sankara Das an ‘ideal communist’

Communist Party of India (CPI) State secretary Binoy Viswam on Friday (January 16, 2025) said that former Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) member K.P. Sankara Das, who was arrested in connection with the alleged misappropriation of gold from the Sabarimala temple on Wednesday, was an “ideal communist” who would knowingly do no wrong.

Mr. Viswam told reporters that everyone in the party knows that Mr. Das will not do any wrong deliberately.

“He is an ideal communist. But, we do not know if any inadvertent mistake was made by him. So, let the investigation go on,” he said.

At the same time, he said that anyone found to be in the wrong during the investigation will not be protected by the CPI or LDF.

Mr. Das was on Wednesday arrested from a private hospital here in the two cases of alleged gold theft from the Dwarapalaka (guardian deity) idols and Sreekovil (sanctum sanctorum) door frames being probed by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) appointed by the Kerala High Court. He is at present still hospitalised.