Excise Minister T.P. Ramakrishnan on Monday said the Opposition was peddling imagined tales of corruption to divert public attention from their political failures.
Opposition legislator Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan had alleged that foreign liquor companies had paid the ruling front a vast sum in backhanders to allow them to retail their products in Kerala.
At a hastily convened press conference, Mr. Ramakrishnan noted bars had sold imported spirit in Kerala since 2007. The licensees had to pay an extra fee to retail foreign made foreign liquor.