Row over letter leak: CPI(M) gears as much as counter Congress-BJP slander marketing campaign towards high management in Kerala

In the wake of a leaked letter purportedly addressed to its Polit Bureau, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] in Kerala appeared poised to politically counter the Congress-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) “marketing campaign”, accusing high occasion leaders and their kin of economic collusion with a UK-based businessperson from the State. 

In New Delhi, CPI(M) Kerala State secretary M.V. Govindan declined to touch upon whether or not the Polit Bureau had acquired a confidential letter detailing the alleged monetary nexus. “Absurd questions don’t advantage solutions”, he mentioned. 

Mr. Govindan ignored insistent questions on whether or not the media leak of the controversial doc signalled divisions throughout the CPI(M)‘s State management. 

The UK-based individual’s enterprise partner-turned-rival had triggered a political controversy on Sunday (August 17, 2025) by claiming he had despatched the letter confidentially to the Polit Bureau, and implicated the subsequent of kin of a high chief for leaking the missive to his opponent to assist the latter in a libel swimsuit.

The criticism emerged within the public area considerably sensationally after the NRI businessperson adduced as proof in a defamatory swimsuit filed by him towards his enterprise rival and a few sections of the media in a Delhi courtroom, for allegedly broadcasting that the CPI(M) had thrown him out of the venue of the occasion congress in Madurai in April 2025. 

Document ‘inconsequential’, says Sivankutty

V. Sivankutty, Kerala’s General Education Minister and CPI(M) State Committee member, mentioned the Congress and the BJP have been utilizing the “inconsequential” doc as if it have been empirical proof to malign the Kerala authorities and the CPI(M) forward of the native physique polls later this yr and the Assembly elections in 2026.

Mr. Sivankutty said that each events have taken a web page from the playbook that they had used within the 2016 and 2021 Assembly elections to run a defamatory marketing campaign towards the CPI(M), its high leaders, and their households.

Instead of creating stable manifesto commitments on social welfare, employment and improvement, the Congress and the BJP, he said, have been once more laying down a smokescreen of lies and ludicrous conspiracy theories within the useless hope that it might yield them wealthy dividends on the hustings in 2026.

He mentioned such slanderous campaigns towards CPI(M) leaders would intensify, given the “inevitability of a 3rd Pinarayi Vijayan authorities.”

“The CPI(M) management will weigh the matter and supply the general public readability”, he added.