From corruption costs to high quality certification: UDF’s reversal on labour contract society | India Information
3 min learnThiruvananthapuramJun 29, 2026 05:32 PM IST
Whereas in Opposition, the Congress had dubbed the Uralungal Labour Contract Co-operative Society (ULCCS), a significant civil infrastructure developer within the cooperative sector, as Pinarayi Vijayan’s Adani. A month after coming to energy, the Congress-led authorities has acknowledged within the Meeting that the society is delivering high quality work.
Replying to questions from Congress members about ULCCS and the unusually giant variety of works awarded to it over the past decade of the CPI(M) authorities, Public Works Minister and IUML chief P Ok Basheer Monday stated, “The society is executing high quality works and therefore their workload has elevated.”
To repeated questions from the ruling bench on ULCCS, the UDF minister stated the federal government had to this point discovered no anomalies within the award of works to the society over the previous decade.
The century-old ULCCS has been beneath assault from the Congress-led UDF lately after the Kozhikode-based labour contract motion emerged because the profitable bidder for a number of key freeway initiatives in Kerala.
Through the Meeting election marketing campaign in April this 12 months, AICC normal secretary (organisation) Ok C Venugopal had stated, “ULCCS is on the epicenter of the corruption beneath Pinarayi Vijayan authorities. They’re profitable initiatives with out a tender. ULCCS is the primary monetary supply of CPI(M). Simply as Adani is to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ULCCS is to Vijayan. Every part goes to ULCCS.” Venugopal had added that if the Congress got here to energy, all dealings associated to ULCCS could be probed.
In 2023, then Opposition chief and current Chief Minister V D Satheesan had alleged that the CPI(M) was utilizing ULCCS to park corruption cash. He had stated the society loved uncommon patronage from the LDF authorities. Satheesan and different Congress leaders repeatedly raised the problem and urged the then authorities to evaluation works awarded to ULCCS.
Basheer’s assertion within the Meeting that the federal government had discovered no anomalies both in awarding works to ULCCS or in fixing mission prices marks an embarrassing volte-face for the ruling alliance, which had earlier alleged that ULCCS was a benami entity of CPI(M) leaders.
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Former Cooperation Minister and CPI(M) chief V N Vasavan stated it was heartening that the UDF had lastly acknowledged ULCCS and the standard of its work. “After we had identified the excellence of ULCCS, Congress leaders had been ridiculing the LDF,” he stated.
