Congress leader courts controversy over alleged support to Rahul Mamkootathil

Sreenadevi Kunjamma, a Congress subordinate who represents the Pallickal part successful the Pathanamthitta territory panchayat, has erstwhile again recovered herself embroiled successful a contention pursuing a societal media station that formed doubts connected the credibility of a pistillate who filed a rape lawsuit against Rahul Mamkootathil, MLA.

The occurrence began connected Tuesday erstwhile Ms. Kunjamma, a erstwhile person of the Communist Party of India who joined the Congress up of the caller section assemblage elections, appeared unrecorded connected her societal media page, questioning immoderate of the claims made by the complainant, a autochthonal of Thiruvalla, against Mr. Mamkootathil. In response, the subsister lodged a ailment with the State Police Chief, demanding a cyber compartment probe and ineligible enactment against Ms. Kunjamma for allegedly revealing her individuality and threatening witnesses. Besides approaching the police, she has besides filed complaints against Ms. Kunjamma with the Congress leadership, including the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president and the Leader of the Opposition.

Ms. Kunjamma, however, filed a counter-complaint against the survivor, alleging that the subsister had deliberately misrepresented and manipulated her statements, exposing her to cyberattacks and damaging her reputation. According to Ms. Kunjamma, the survivor’s actions “appear to beryllium a fascist communicative aimed astatine suppressing adjacent the astir basal close to state of expression.”

Meanwhile, different ailment has been filed with the State Police Chief seeking the removal of a Facebook station by histrion Rini Ann George, successful which she described the apprehension of Mr. Mamkootathil arsenic a triumph for erstwhile Chief Minister and Congress person the precocious Oommen Chandy. Activist Kulathur Jaysingh, who submitted the complaint, accused Ms. George of deliberately utilizing the names of dormant individuals and unrelated facts to springiness credibility to her opinions, thereby spreading a misleading narrative.

The constabulary had earlier registered a lawsuit against Ranjitha Pulickal, Pathanamthitta territory caput of Mahila Congress, for allegedly disclosing the individuality of the complainant successful a rape lawsuit against the MLA.