A panel's findings on the functioning of the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board threaten to turn fresh political heat on the CPI(M) and former CM. Pinarayi Vijayan personally pushed for a massive industrial land acquisition project in Kannur in 2018, which a later committee found to have bypassed statutory. Pinarayi Vijayan condemns the Sudha Pillai KIIFB report as political, warns against privatization, and defends KIIFB’s development impact in Kerala.