Overview

• The confidential complaint, submitted by businessman Muhammad Sharshad to the CPI(M) Polit Bureau, surfaced in a Delhi defamation suit and alleges senior leaders hid illicit transfers involving UK-based businessman Rajesh Krishna.
• State secretary M. V. Govindan has declined to confirm receipt of the letter, branding inquiries into the leak as “absurd.”
• General Education Minister V. Sivankutty and other CPI(M) officials have labeled the document inconsequential, accusing the Congress and BJP of reviving a years-old WhatsApp circulation to malign the party.
• Local Self-Government Minister M. B. Rajesh called the allegations a politically motivated defamation effort ahead of local body polls and the 2026 assembly elections.
• Opposition leaders V. D. Satheesan (UDF) and K. Surendran (BJP) have demanded formal Enforcement Directorate and Income Tax Department probes, and the complainant says authorities are already investigating.