Party can arraign him, but was it possible for VS to justify the lottery fraud?

Reports speak about CPM leadership putting the blame squarely on Chief Minister V.S.Achuthanandan for the debacle in the election to the local bodies in Kerala, maybe citing the single reason that he opposed the stance taken by strong forces in the party in the lottery issue.

He was blamed earlier for the body blow received by the party in the Lok Sabha elections on account of his stance in the SNC Lavalin issue. The party was dealing with the issue legally and politically when VS had taken stern stance.

Forget about Lavalin and all that, but in the lottery fiasco, could it have been possible for VS to justify the forces which were supporting draw of lotteries which were dubbed fishy? Transparency has been totally lacking in the running of outside lotteries in Kerala. Those supporting this sort of lotteries were basing their arguments on the situation that the Central law was standing in the way of taking action against spurious lotteries.

At the same time, some legal pundits have pointed out that there are provisions in the Central Act itself empowering the states to take action against erring lotteries. Recently, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee himself had said that the states have the power to deal with faulty operators.

Therefore, could it be possible for a Chief Minister to support erring people. Everyone knows that such lotteries do not have transparency and that they were taking advantage of gullible poor people on a large scale.