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The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) has reportedly cleared the indebtedness liability of astir ₹60 lakh owed by erstwhile Wayanad District Congress Committee (DCC) treasurer N.M. Vijayan successful an municipality cooperative slope astatine Sulthan Bathery, much than 9 months aft helium took his ain life.
This comes a fewer days aft Congress person and Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra concluded her sojourn to the constituency.
The household members of Vijayan had earlier threatened to spell connected hunger onslaught if the indebtedness liability was not cleared, claiming that helium had incurred them to assistance the party. It was alleged that adjacent the onshore documents of their location had been pledged to the bank.
Vijayan and his lad Jijesh attempted termination connected December 25, 2024 and some died 2 days later. His termination enactment aboriginal implicated I.C. Balakrishnan, MLA, DCC president N.D. Appachan, and leaders K.K. Gopinathan and P.V. Balachandran for allegedly forcing him to instrumentality payments from occupation applicants successful a cooperative slope nether the party’s control, landing him successful superior fiscal troubles.
Padmaja Vijesh, daughter-in-law of Vijayan, was recovered successful her country with her near wrist slit connected September 12. Hours before, she had met the media against the backdrop of the decease of Jose Nelledam, a subordinate of the Mullankolli panchayat, who was recovered dormant successful a pond a time earlier. Criticising the Congress leadership, she had said the enactment “cheated her family” by not clearing the debts of Vijayan. Ms. Vijesh besides met the Chief Minister recently.
Family yet to get slope intimation
She told a conception of the media connected Wednesday that the household was, however, yet to person immoderate authoritative intimation from the slope regarding the clearance of liabilities.
According to sources, the enactment had earlier handed implicit to the household a sum of ₹10 lakh to wide the indebtedness taken from different fiscal institution. It had besides fixed ₹20 lakh for the family’s subsistence.
KPCC president Sunny Joseph had besides precocious said the enactment would instrumentality steps to wide the liabilities.
Vijayan reportedly took ₹10 lakh arsenic indebtedness from the slope successful 2007. The magnitude was raised up to ₹40 lakh successful phases aft converting it archetypal arsenic a concern indebtedness and aboriginal arsenic an cultivation loan. However, aft 2021, helium could not wage thing towards clearing the debt.
