Thiruvananthapuram, Feb. 25 -- Congress Working Committee member Ramesh Chennithala on Wednesday alleged that the Kerala Chief Minister's Office was directly responsible for what he described as a large-scale data breach involving the personal information of government employees and pensioners in the run-up to the Legislative Assembly elections.
Addressing a press conference, Chennithala released a letter dated December 31, 2025, sent by Sriram Sambasiva Rao, Officer on Special Duty to the Chief Minister, to the Chief Mission Director, seeking the transfer of detailed employee information from the K-Smart application to the Public Relations Department (PRD).
He said the document clearly established that the initiative originated from the ...