The Vigilance helping of Kerala’s Cooperation section has initiated an enquiry into the alleged fiscal irregularities successful the supposedly Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-controlled Valiyasala Farm Tour Society, headed by the party’s Thirumala ward councillor, K. Anil Kumar, 52, who died by suspected termination connected Saturday (September 20, 2025).
General Education Minister and Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State Secretariat subordinate V. Sivankutty said connected Monday (September 22, 2025) that the section would audit the society’s fiscal transactions and hole accountability by “identifying members who wilfully defaulted connected indebtedness repayments and indulged successful different self-profiting monetary shenanigans, consequently pushing the instauration into fiscal distress”.
Mr. Sivankutty said the BJP enactment could not flight the “vicarious responsibility” for Anil Kumar’s death.
Mr. Sivankutty said helium had called connected Anil Kumar’s bereaved household connected Sunday and recovered them profoundly disenchanted with the BJP State leadership’s “failure to assistance Anil Kumar tide implicit the society’s crisis”.
Mr. Sivankutty said the BJP was attempting to prevention its look and insulate itself from the wrath of its cadres by blaming the State constabulary for Anil Kumar’s death.
(On Sunday, BJP Thiruvananthapuram territory president Karamana Jayan had accused the constabulary of unlawfully summoning Anil Kumar to the Thampanoor constabulary presumption and coercing him to settee a fiscal quality involving ₹5 lakh, skipping owed process. He alleged that the constabulary had abetted Anil Kumar’s death. Mr. Jayan denied that the BJP controlled the society.)
Mr. Sivankutty said Anil Kumar’s purported termination letter, itemised arsenic transgression country grounds by the police, intelligibly indicated that the councillor felt betrayed by his ain enactment members and abandoned by the State leadership.
Seeks apology from Rajeev Chandrasekhar
He said BJP State president Rajeev Chandrasekhar was venting his ire connected journalists, provoked by the interior situation his enactment has recovered itself in. Mr. Sivankutty demanded a nationalist apology from Mr. Chandrasekhar for allegedly demeaning a pistillate writer astatine Sivagiri connected Sunday.
Mr. Sivankutty said Mr. Chandrasekhar “always added an constituent of threat” to his statements. “Such intimidations volition not walk muster successful Kerala”, helium said.
(Mr. Chandrasekhar had drawn disapproval past period for posting connected societal media that “BJP karyakarthas and Hindus” would mobilise themselves successful spot to forestall Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his Tamil Nadu counterpart M.K. Stalin from attending the Global Ayyappa Sanghamam, which was organised astatine Pampa connected Saturday.)
Protest marches
Meanwhile, Anil Kumar’s decease has rocked Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation politics. The BJP has announced a march to the Thampanoor constabulary presumption connected Monday.
Meanwhile, the CPI(M) territory caput has called for protestation marches successful municipal wards, demanding that the constabulary bring “BJP leaders liable for the councillor’s death” to book.
