kozhikode bjp state president k surendran said on saturday that a notice which was served on him directing him to appear for questioning in the kodakara highway heist case was an attempt to divert attention from the gold smuggling issue surendran hinted that he may not be appearing before the police on tuesday as there was a state officebearers meeting scheduled that dayi have to attend the meeting as i have to preside over it we have not decided yet on whether to appear on tuesday or not state officebearers meeting was scheduled before this notice was served whatever has to be done legally would be done said surendran adding that he was not expecting justice from the present governmentresponding to specific questions on whether he would appear before the police as per the summons he said that the notice was served for taking a witness statement and there was no law that dictates that he has to appear on the particular day he said that it was yet to be decided which day to appear as the notice was only served on fridaysurendran said that the investigation into gold smuggling incidents and the robberies connected with it were all leading to cpm leaders government has been on the defensive arjun ayanki is saying that kodi suni was behind all these hence it is sure that akg centre has links since some leaders of cpm are on the defensive as more details of gold smuggling and robbery are surfacing they need a diversion hence they decided to give me a notice he saidhe reiterated that bjp never runs away from such investigations we never fake illnesses or falsely say that we are covid positive to get away from such cases even after knowing that these are false charges we have always cooperated with the rule of law he saidsurendran said that cpm was executing a wellplanned move against them using the police and that the crime branch had taken a case suo motu after realizing that they had no other way to go ahead with it personally i am not taking any of these seriously as far as the party is concerned we would strongly fight it politically and legally he added