Overview

• The party initiated an internal probe to trace the leak and review the questions raised by the mobile phone recording.
• The clip, attributed to DYFI district secretary V.P. Sarath Prasad, names A.C. Moideen and M.K. Kannan and describes large dealings and assets worth crores.
• Congress leaders filed requests for Income Tax and Vigilance inquiries, and BJP figures pressed for action against the CPI(M) district committee.
• Moideen and Kannan denied the allegations, and CPI(M) district secretary Abdul Khader dismissed the recording as baseless and sensationalised.
• Prasad said the remarks came from a private conversation recorded years ago without his knowledge, and no independent investigation has been confirmed solely in response to the leak.