KALPETTA: The family of Wayanad DCC treasurer N M Vijayan and his son, who died by suicide, have released more letters and a suicide note written by the leader, putting the Wayanad DCC leadership in a spot. The letters and notes were found stored under Vijayan’s eldest son Vijesh’s bed. Vijesh handed over the note to the police on Monday.
The suicide note contains allegations of debt, the incident of taking bribes in the cooperative bank, and the insult that no one cared about him during the crisis despite standing with the Congress party. In addition, the letter sent to KPCC president K Sudhakaran mentions that MLA I C Balakrishnan had taken money for appointments in various cooperative banks.
Vijayan and his son died on December 27. In his letter, Vijayan narrated the details of the amounts collected from different candidates for appointments in Congress-ruled cooperative banks, the names of Congress leaders who received these funds, including I C Balakrishnan, N D Appachan and K K Gopinathan, and the loans he took for paying back these amounts. Vijayan mentioned in his suicide note that he wanted this note to be handed over to Congress leaders, and directed his son Vijesh to wait for 10 days and then hand it over to the Wayanad district police chief.
“I have taken a loan of Rs7 lakh for repaying the bribe amount for appointment at the Sultan Bathery Urban Cooperative Bank as well as for meeting the expenses of several party activities on the instructions of I C Balakrishnan. My financial liabilities are not known to my family members. My son’s family should not suffer owing to this. If I revealed these matters before my death, I can’t bear to witness that I became the one to cause insult to the party. However, the party hasn’t taken any step to solve my financial crisis. Therefore, if I die due to mental pressure, the persons I mentioned should be held responsible for it,” Vijayan stated in his note.
The note also reveals that Vijayan’s son Jijesh was fired from his job in the bank to appoint someone else as per Balakrishnan’s wishes and that the leaders took a loan from Sultan Bathery Urban Cooperative Bank in his name.
Vijayan also points out that Balakrishnan was not ready to repay the money and the KPCC leadership was aware of all this. The letter was written as a death note to the KPCC president.
“After my father’s death, I recently received more letters and a suicide note from under my bed. Even in the death note, my father had written that he was not ready to be a witness to bringing disrepute to the party. My father had instructed us to hand over the note to the party leaders first. However, even after my father, who was the DCC treasurer, passed away, our family has not received any words of comfort or support from the district leaders. That is why we directly handed over the notes to Sultan Bathery DySP,” said Vijesh.
Police yet to confirm suicide notes as evidence
Sultan Bathery DySP Abdul Shareef, who is in charge of the special investigation team, said that they need to verify the authenticity of the latest letters and notes. “We need to confirm whether it is a suicide note, and the authenticity of the evidence. We are yet to confirm the total liability of Vijayan. We have requested 14 banks to send the details regarding this. The police received information that Vijayan had a liability of Rs 1.15 crore. He has liabilities of Rs 1.3 crore in Sultan Bathery Urban Cooperative Bank alone,” said DySP Abdul Shareef.