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A “new” acceptable of mobile telephone audio recordings and WhatsApp chats, which surfaced successful the nationalist domain connected Monday, appeared to reignite the serial intersexual misconduct ungraded centring astir Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil, arguably menacing the Congress’s section assemblage predetermination run astatine a captious juncture.
The messages and recordings of questionable provenance convey a “threatening” antheral dependable asking a pistillate to terminate her gestation medically against her will. BJP workers successful Palakkad marched successful protestation to the MLA’s office.
Speaking to reporters successful Palakkad, Mr. Mamkootathil stated that tv channels had attributed the dependable to him without giving him the close of reply. He besides questioned the governmental timing of the accusations, which, helium stated, suspiciously resurfaced during the spirited section assemblage predetermination campaign.
Mr. Mamkootathil signalled assurance erstwhile journalists told him that the alleged unfortunate would conscionable Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and narrate her “exploitation and mistreatment” with integer proof. Mr. Mamkootathil noted that helium welcomed immoderate investigation.
When challenged by journalists to contradict that the audio signaling and substance messages were not his, Mr. Mamkootathil said: “I person not breached immoderate law. I volition wide the aerial astatine the due time”.
Mr. Mamkootathil, who faced calls for his resignation, including from his enactment colleagues, chiefly women leaders, had steadfastly refused to measurement down.
The constabulary probe into the allegations has remained stalled owed to the singular deficiency of a ailment from the alleged victims.
A elder Congress person said the enactment had banked connected the inherent uncertainty successful the case, chiefly based connected third-party complaints, to enactment its manus against Mr. Mamkootathil. “However, a nonstop ailment from the alleged unfortunate to the Chief Minister would importantly change matters for Mr. Mamkootathil,” helium added.
Congress leaders appeared discomfited that the resurgence of the ungraded had supplied the ruling beforehand with sensational grist to endeavour to change the arc of the State’s governmental communicative during the important section assemblage campaign.
General Education Minister and CPI(M) State committee subordinate V. Sivankutty said Mr. Mamkootathil’s beingness astatine the hustings signalled a singular contempt for nationalist opinion, which augurs good for the LDF.
Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan and KPCC president Sunny Joseph, MLA, refused to comment. However, erstwhile KPCC president K. Muraleedharan enactment the onus connected the authorities to prosecute Mr. Mamkootathil based connected evidence, alternatively than edifice to predetermination stunts.
