Union Minister of State and BJP leader Suresh Gopi Friday wondered if the central agencies’ action against Malayalam film actors in connection with the smuggling of luxury cars was an attempt to “bury the gold missing controversy at Sabarimala temple”.

During his grassroots level interaction, ‘culvert sabha’, in Palakkad on Friday, Gopi, while answering a query from a participant, said: “I wonder if it was to bury the gold issue (missing of gold from Sabarimala temple items) that two persons (actors) were put on the weighing scales and left to Kerala people’s assessment. Whenever issues affecting the Kerala government emerge, the process of tarnishing shining persons using police is happening. It will come again”.

He was referring to the Enforcement Directorate’s raids on Malayalam fil

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