Idukki DCC president manhandles differently-abled Congress worker

Idukki District Congress Committee (DCC) president C.P. Mathew allegedly manhandled a differently-abled Congress idiosyncratic who was attempting to instrumentality a selfie with Shashi Tharoor, MP. The incidental occurred astatine Onnam Mile adjacent Kumily connected Monday.

The incidental took spot during a scheduled nationalist gathering and roadshow for Peerumade Assembly constituency UDF campaigner Cyriac Thomas. When Mr. Tharoor arrived astatine the venue, a Congress idiosyncratic from Vandiperiyar, identified arsenic Mahesh, approached him for a selfie. Upon noticing this, Mr. Mathew reportedly manhandled the idiosyncratic and kicked him distant from the area. Other Congress workers questioned the move, starring to a heated statement with the DCC president.

As quality transmission cameras captured the incident, different enactment workers rapidly intervened. They brought the idiosyncratic backmost to the venue and arranged for him to instrumentality a selfie with Mr. Tharoor to de-escalate the situation. The idiosyncratic has not yet filed a ceremonial ailment against Mr. Mathew.

While addressing the gathering, Mr. Tharoor emphasised that to resoluteness the ongoing issues successful the plantation sector, voters indispensable guarantee the triumph of Mr. Thomas. He predicted that the UDF would unafraid 100 seats successful the upcoming elections and would prime a competent Chief Minister.

“For the past 10 years, the radical of the State person been facing galore issues,” said Mr. Tharoor.

Telangana Panchayati Raj and Rural Development Minister Danasari Anasuya aka Seethakka, KPCC wide caput Ibrahimkutty Kallar, Idukki MP Dean Kuriakose, and Mr. Thomas, among others attended the meeting.