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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State enactment has demanded an mentation from Palakkad municipal chairperson Prameela Sasidharan astir her attending a relation connected Sunday successful which Rahul Mamkootathil, MLA, who is facing intersexual maltreatment charges was the main guest.
The Palakkad municipality is ruled by the BJP. Its chairperson attended the stadium bypass nexus roadworthy inaugural relation with the MLA astatine a clip erstwhile the BJP had vowed to reason and boycott Mr. Mamkootathil.
Ms. Sasidharan’s enactment and developments that followed person exposed the discontentment brewing wrong the BJP successful Palakkad. There appears to beryllium a vertical divided wrong the enactment with 1 conception targeting the chairperson.
Resignation sought
BJP State president Rajeev Chandrasekhar expressed displeasure astatine Ms. Sasidharan’s action. BJP State wide caput C. Krishnakumar and territory president Prasanth Sivan demanded that enactment beryllium taken against Ms. Sasidharan. In the enactment territory committee, Mr. Krishnakumar has reportedly raised beardown objections to the chairperson’s action, demanding her resignation and an apology successful beforehand of the media.
But the enactment enactment is warned by immoderate leaders against stringent enactment arsenic it mightiness negatively impact the BJP’s prospects successful the upcoming municipal elections.
Meanwhile, the Congress has begun efforts to leverage the interior fissures wrong the BJP by sending overtures to Ms. Sasidharan. The Palakkad artifact committee of the Congress has invited her to the party. But Ms. Sasidharan has rejected the Congress’s invitation. She said she attended the programme arsenic it was a development-related function.
The chairperson explained that she attended the programme pursuing an invitation from the ward councillor, and the BJP had not proscribed her from attending Mr. Mamkootathil’s function.
She said she was consenting to apologise if attending the relation was a mistake. Reiterating that she would ne'er power implicit to the Congress, Ms. Sasidharan said that she would gladly judge immoderate enactment taken by the party.
Ms. Sasidharan said that arsenic chairperson, she had worked for the payment and improvement of the radical of Palakkad.
According to BJP territory leadership, her enactment has shamed the enactment successful Palakkad. But erstwhile BJP nationalist enforcement subordinate N. Sivarajan supported Ms. Sasidharan, saying that she had not been alert of Mr. Mamkootathil’s beingness astatine the function.
A fewer days ago, Ms. Sasidharan had complained to the BJP enactment against her detractors for avoiding her from a relation successful a ward represented by Mr. Krishnakumar’s woman Mini, successful which P.T. Usha, MP, was a main guest.
Sources suggest that Ms. Sasidharan’s attendance astatine Mr. Mamkootathil’s relation was a calculated countermeasure against the BJP faction opposing her.
