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The Kerala Legislative Assembly passed a government-sponsored solution connected Thursday (October 9, 2025) barring 3 Congress legislators, who person been accused of attacking Watch and Ward personnel, from attending the House for the remainder of the existent session.
The suspended members are Roji M. John, M. Vincent, and Saneesh Kumar.
Notably, the tabling of the authorities solution and consequent voting took spot aft the Opposition benches emptied, pursuing the United Democratic Front’s (UDF) ongoing boycott of legislative concern implicit the alleged “misappropriation, replication and sale” of Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple artefacts to affluent collectors.
Tabling the authorities resolution, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M.B. Rajesh said the UDF members had “crossed the constituent of nary return” by earnestly injuring Watch and Ward personnel, including women, shielding Speaker A.N. Shamseer from the Opposition members’ carnal trespasses connected the Chair.
He said the UDF’s “violence” earnestly injured the Chief Marshal, M. Shibu, who sustained a sedate fracture connected his close limb erstwhile attempting to forestall Opposition legislators from storming the Speaker’s dias. “Mr. Shibu is scheduled for an exigency country astatine the Government Medical College Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram”, helium said.
Mr. Rajesh said the UDF had been connected the warpath successful the House since the Assembly resumed aft a hiatus connected October 6. “Expressing disenchantment with the High Court-ordered Crime Branch enquiry into the theft of golden coverings from Sabarimala, the UDF repeatedly disrupted legislative business”, helium said.
Mr. Rajesh said the UDF stayed distant from debates connected important Bills, “betraying the trust” reposed successful them by their constituents and the nationalist astatine large.
He said the authorities had agreed to an adjournment statement connected the Sabarimala issue. However, the UDF, “unwilling to look the facts and keen connected laying down a smokescreen of lies to people governmental brownie points”, turned down the ruling front’s offer, helium said.
Mr. Rajesh accused the UDF of spurning the Speaker’s intermediation betwixt the authorities and the Opposition for the creaseless behaviour of legislative concern and Assembly proceedings.
He besides accused UDF members of rushing towards Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who is the Leader of the House, and manhandling women Watch and Ward unit repeatedly.
Earlier, Mr. Rajesh had accused Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan of unleashing “terror” successful the House.
The Treasury benches passed the “condemnatory resolution” by dependable vote.
