CPI(M) Kerala secretary M V Govindan on Monday declined to comment on the allegations raised by Mahe native businessman Muhammad Sharshad regarding illegal financial deals of some party leaders, dismissing them as “nonsense”.
Declining to respond to the media’s questions related to the allegations, he said “Absurd questions do not merit answers.”
Sharshad had accused Govindan’s son Shyamjith of leaking his confidential letter to the CPI-M Polit Bureau. Responding to MV Govindan’s remarks that the letter controversy is nonsense, Mohammad Sharshad said Govindan should ask his son about this.
“I have all the WhatsApp, email and text messages exchanged with Govindan’s son Shyamjith. How can it be nonsense? “Sharshad asked , and said that Govindan cannot say that there is no relationship between me and his son, ” Sharshad told Malayalam media.
Chennai-based, Mahe native businessman Muhammad Sharshad alleged that party state secretary MV Govindan’s son, Shyamjith leaked a confidential complaint he sent to CPI-M Polit Bureau, disclosing illegal financial deals of some party leaders. The content in the complaint is that prominent CPI-M leaders in the state have illegal financial deals with London-based businessman Rajesh Krishna.
In his complaint , Sharshad alleged that Rajesh Krishna had transferred unaccounted money to the bank accounts of some CPI-M leaders. The complaint contains serious allegations that Rajesh Krishna, in collaboration with foreign paper companies, embezzled money from government schemes, and transferred the money from abroad through a company registered in Chennai to the personal accounts of some CPI-M leaders.
Rajesh Krishna was the one who helped leaders including MV Govindan and P Sreeramakrishnan during their travels to London.
Along with the complaint, Sharshad had attached supporting documents too. Those very documents later reached the Delhi High Court when Rajesh Krishna submitted them in connection with a defamation case.
Speaking to a Malayalam news channel on Sunday,Sharshad alleged that MV Govindan’s son Shyamjith was behind the leak, passing on his complaint to Rajesh Krishna .He added that Rajesh may have forced Shyamjith to leak the letter. Sharshad alleged that the party leadership ignored his complaint and Govindan blocked his phone number after he informed him about his son’s links with Rajesh.
Meanwhile, senior CPI-M leader Thomas Isaac has on Monday said the allegations leveled against him in the ‘leaked complaint’ are absurd and that legal action will be taken if those are not withdrawn. “If the person making the allegations does not withdraw the allegations and apologize, legal action will be taken,” Thomas Issac said
State Local Self-Governments minister MB. Rajesh said in Kochi on Monday that the attempt to include him among the leaders of CPI-M having alleged financial links with London-based businessman Rajesh Krishna is to defame him ahead of the forthcoming Assembly elections