Vijayan mum on son’s admission

While most state CPM leaders have been off the controversy, Vijayan acolyte and state Education Minister M A Baby had sought to dismiss the allegations. Baby maintained that if Gandhi and Nehru could study abroad, there could be nothing wrong in “poor Vijayan’s” son doing the same.

Vijayan himself, however, refused to be drawn into the controversy. “I will talk only after all the stories are written and done with, and not before,” he said on Wednesday.

Vijayan’s silence came a day after the Kerala High Court had directed the Central Government and the Director General of Revenue Intelligence to report to it on the progress in investigations into the alleged income-tax evasion by Vijayan, wife Kamala and son Kiran, besides ministers M A Baby and Thomas Isaac.

The I-T department here had filed an affidavit before the court saying that its probe into the alleged evasion involving Vijayan, his kin and the two ministers had begun after the Central Board of Direct Taxes asked it to investigate a complaint from the editor of a local magazine, who subsequently moved the High Court too.

Meanwhile, the Congress’s student outfit, Kerala Students Union, has sent a separate complaint to the Enforcement Directorate alleging that Vijayan had flouted FEMA regulations while sending his son abroad.