Hours after polling began in five southern districts of Kerala for the local bodies, state BJP chief K. Surendran on Tuesday said Speaker of the state assembly and few ministers were involved with the 'smugglers' now arrested in the gold smuggling case.

Surendran said that if in the past he had mentioned about the role of the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's office and Vijayan himself of being the biggest beneficiary in the smuggling case, then role of Speaker P.Sreeramakrishnan and a few Ministers cannot be denied.