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Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan has brushed disconnected the caller accusations of intersexual misconduct against erstwhile Youth Congress State president Rahul Mamkootathil, MLA, calling them irrelevant.
“The Congress cannot punish a person doubly for the aforesaid alleged offence,” helium told reporters. “He has already been suspended once. Do you privation america to suspend him again?” Mr. Satheesan remarked successful effect to repeated questions astir Mr. Mamkootathil’s information successful Congress events successful Palakkad.
Addressing a ‘meet-the-leader’ lawsuit hosted by Palakkad Press Club present connected Tuesday, the Leader of the Opposition suggested that immoderate questions astir interior enactment matters, including Mr. Mamkootathil’s attendance astatine Congress programmes, should beryllium directed to Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Sunny Joseph.
Mr. Satheesan reiterated that a United Democratic Front (UDF) authorities would supply five lakh lodging units for the mediocre wrong 5 years by combining Central, State and section assemblage schemes. “We are assured that we tin bash it. Under Oommen Chandy’s administration, 4.55 lakh houses were built successful 5 years done 5 abstracted programmes.”
He pointed retired that the Pinarayi Vijayan government’s Life Mission has built acold less houses adjacent aft nine-and-a-half years. Having studied the Chandy government’s schemes, the UDF is assured it tin bash better, but volition request to rise the lodging allocation due to the fact that the existent ₹5 lakh per portion is insufficient, helium said.
During the inauguration of the United Democratic Front (UDF)’s argumentation normal present later, Mr. Satheesan said that the KPCC’s suspension of Mr. Mamkootathil was carried retired with the consent of the party’s nationalist leadership.
Protecting women’s dignity is simply a apical precedence of the Congress, helium said, adding that the enactment dealt with the accusations against the MLA with the utmost seriousness and took disciplinary enactment due to the fact that the allegations were grave. He contrasted the Congress enactment with different parties, pointing retired that the CPI(M) had shielded its MLAs erstwhile akin misconduct claims emerged.
He pointed retired that the Congress was the lone enactment to enactment decisively against a person erstwhile accusations arose, noting that Mr. Mamkootathil stepped down from his Youth Congress station connected the party’s orders. “No different enactment successful Kerala could person done this,” helium added.
Mr. Satheesan said that helium was erstwhile criticised for bending implicit backwards to assistance the youth, and present helium is being charged with not doing enough. “Now immoderate radical are saying that I conspired to destruct the youth. How tin idiosyncratic bash some the things astatine once?” helium asked.
