<p>Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/pinarayi-vijayan">Pinarayi Vijayan</a> and the ruling CPM's leadership have denied the allegations that a party local leader collected a bribe from a doctor offering an appointment as a Kerala Public Service Commission (KPSC) member by influencing public works minister P A Mohamed Riyas, who is also the son-in-law of the CM.</p><p>Vijayan said in the Assembly on Tuesday that apart from media reports, no such irregularities came to his attention. CPM Kozhikode district secretary P Mohanan also maintained the same stand. He told reporters that a section of the media and CPM's political rivals were raising such baseless allegations to tarnish the image of Riyas and the CPM government.</p>.CPI(M) in correction phase in Kerala, CM Pinarayi Vijayan continues with his widely criticised style.<p>Opposition leader V D Satheesan of the Congress, who raised the issue in the assembly, said that the CPM was trying to settle the bribery row within the party instead of going for a police investigation. The allegation had affected the credibility of the KPSC, he said.</p><p>The opposition staged a walkout in protest against the government's decision not to seek a police probe into the allegation.</p><p>A CPM local leader of Kozhikode allegedly offered a KPSC member post to a woman homoeo doctor from Kozhikode by demanding Rs 60 lakh several months ago and accepting Rs 22 lakh as advance. He allegedly told them that Riyas and a couple of other senior party leaders from Kozhikode would be helping with the appointment.</p><p>But as the doctor didn't get the appointment, the doctor and her husband reportedly complained to the CPM leadership.</p>
<p>Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/pinarayi-vijayan">Pinarayi Vijayan</a> and the ruling CPM's leadership have denied the allegations that a party local leader collected a bribe from a doctor offering an appointment as a Kerala Public Service Commission (KPSC) member by influencing public works minister P A Mohamed Riyas, who is also the son-in-law of the CM.</p><p>Vijayan said in the Assembly on Tuesday that apart from media reports, no such irregularities came to his attention. CPM Kozhikode district secretary P Mohanan also maintained the same stand. He told reporters that a section of the media and CPM's political rivals were raising such baseless allegations to tarnish the image of Riyas and the CPM government.</p>.CPI(M) in correction phase in Kerala, CM Pinarayi Vijayan continues with his widely criticised style.<p>Opposition leader V D Satheesan of the Congress, who raised the issue in the assembly, said that the CPM was trying to settle the bribery row within the party instead of going for a police investigation. The allegation had affected the credibility of the KPSC, he said.</p><p>The opposition staged a walkout in protest against the government's decision not to seek a police probe into the allegation.</p><p>A CPM local leader of Kozhikode allegedly offered a KPSC member post to a woman homoeo doctor from Kozhikode by demanding Rs 60 lakh several months ago and accepting Rs 22 lakh as advance. He allegedly told them that Riyas and a couple of other senior party leaders from Kozhikode would be helping with the appointment.</p><p>But as the doctor didn't get the appointment, the doctor and her husband reportedly complained to the CPM leadership.</p>