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Congress person Shama Mohamed has lashed retired astatine the enactment enactment for overlooking women successful the party’s campaigner enactment for the upcoming Assembly elections successful Kerala.
In a station connected her Facebook leafage connected Friday, a time aft the Congress enactment retired its database of candidates, she said that lone 9 retired of the 92 candidates of the enactment are women.
“I person been rejected, but not defeated. I petition my person Rahul Gandhi, whom I admire, respect, and adore, to assistance the Congress women of Kerala. In the Lok Sabha elections of 2024, lone 1 pistillate was fixed a summons retired of the 16 persons who contested. If a pistillate happens to beryllium talented, the concern is dire,” she wrote.
Kochi seat
Although Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) wide caput and two-time councillor Deepthy Mary Varghese had appeared assured that she would beryllium fielded from the Kochi constituency, Ernakulam DCC president Mohammad Shiyas made it into the last list. She had been earlier overlooked for the Kochi Mayor post. However, Ms. Varghese has refused to marque her displeasure nationalist and adjacent shared a station successful enactment of Mr. Shiyas connected Friday.
The protests from women leaders of the Congress who were denied tickets has been muted this clip compared to the past Assembly elections. In 2021, the party’s women’s helping president Lathika Subhash resigned from the post, wounded implicit the denial of Ettumanur spot to her and shaved her caput sitting successful beforehand of the Congress bureau arsenic a people of protest.
Voices of protestation from women leaders are being witnessed successful the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) too. On Friday, enactment spokesperson T.P. Sindhumol sent a ailment to the nationalist enactment that she was denied candidature successful the Ettumanur seat, which was handed implicit to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)- state Twenty20.
