Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 30 (TIWN) The principal opposition parties in Kerala - the Congress and the BJP - have been on the warpath demanding the resignation of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan ever since the gold smuggling case surfaced in July. Now with two key arrests taking place, these two parties on Friday levelled more allegations about the role of Vijayan.

Vijayan's trusted lieutenant and senior bureaucrat M. Sivasankar was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and then came the arrest of Bineesh Kodiyeri, the son of state party secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan in Bengaluru, also by the ED but in a case involving drug trafficking.