[18] A media report alleged that Chandy did not declare his true property value in the affidavit submitted to the Election Commission of India.

He was accused of encroachment on Punnamada Lake at his resort in Alappuzha by keeping buoys afloat.

[19] An allegation was raised against Chandy in October 2017 that he constructed a resort and a road to it illegally by filling in a water channel and paddy field in the ecologically fragile lower Kuttanad region.

In Kuwait, he was involved with a waste disposal and cleanup campaign in a suburb mainly inhabited by expatriates from Kerala.

[21] Chandy was the chairman of the Daveedputhra Charitable Society, which has been involved in building houses and providing sanitation facilities, health care and educational assistance, and other services.