Thiruvananthapuram, Jan. 5 -- The Kerala Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB), in a report to the state government, has recommended transferring the case of illegal diversion of funds sourced from foreign entities for a housing rehabilitation project in Ernakulam district involving Leader of Opposition VD Satheesan to the Central Bureau of investigation (CBI), a development that has sparked a political row ahead of the Assembly elections this year.

Congress's Satheesan, a five-time MLA who took over as the LoP in the assembly following the UDF's defeat in the 2021 assembly elections, has emerged as one of the strongest voices against the LDF government and an adept election manager under whom the UDF has won a string of bypolls an...