Overview

• Police in Thiruvananthapuram registered an unnatural-death case after BJP councillor K. Anil Kumar was found hanging in his ward office, with a purported suicide letter itemised as evidence.
• The Cooperation Department’s Vigilance wing began examining transactions at the Valiyasala Farm Tour Society led by Anil Kumar, with an audit to identify alleged willful loan defaulters.
• CPI(M) alleged the society faces roughly ₹6 crore in unpaid loans by borrowers it says include BJP leaders and called for a police investigation into party responsibility.
• BJP leaders denied organisational control over the society and described it as Anil Kumar’s personal enterprise, while accusing CPI(M) and the police of intimidation and announcing a march to the Thampanoor station.
• State BJP president Rajeev Chandrasekhar’s heated exchange with a woman reporter over questions on the death drew condemnation from the Kerala Union of Working Journalists, and CPI(M) demanded a public apology.