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Unni Vengeri, incumbent president of Changaroth grama panchayat adjacent Perambra successful Kozhikode district, has filed a ailment with the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Perambra, accusing Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) workers of demeaning his caste during a triumph solemnisation taken retired connected December 13 aft the declaration of the section assemblage canvass results.
In the ailment filed connected Tuesday (December 16), Mr. Vengeri, who is from the Left Democratic Front (LDF), said that aft the United Democratic Front (UDF) captured powerfulness successful the panchayat, 5 of the IUML workers and 25 others barged into the panchayat office. They erected flags of the Congress and the IUML determination and threw distant immoderate of the furnishings kept successful the office. The radical aboriginal resorted to a clean-up enactment aft spraying cattle dung h2o connected the premises, portion raising abusive slogans. Visuals of the incidental were aboriginal circulated connected societal media.
Mr. Vengeri, who belongs to the Scheduled Caste (SC), claimed that the IUML workers did it to demean him and others belonging to his assemblage and to explicit their displeasure implicit his presumption arsenic the panchayat president. He said that though the UDF had travel to powerfulness successful immoderate different panchayats successful Perambra, akin acts were not performed astatine immoderate of those places. Mr. Vengeri besides alleged that a Facebook illustration titled Praveen Kumar Wayanad had circulated the video. In the 2020-25 period, the station of panchayat president successful Changaroth was reserved for the SC community. Mr. Vengeri is an country committee subordinate of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Meanwhile, LDF activists staged a protestation against the occurrence successful the evening. However, IUML section leaders denied the allegations and claimed it was a “symbolic protest” to amusement that the “corrupt LDF was wiped retired of power.”
