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Leader of the Opposition V. D. Satheesan has termed arsenic “deeply shameful” the developments surrounding the sexual battle ailment against erstwhile MLA and filmmaker P.T. Kunhi Mohammed, stating that the hold successful registering a First Information Report (FIR) reflected the treble standards successful handling complaints against those adjacent to the ruling front.
Speaking to reporters successful transportation with the United Democratic Front’s (UDF) Puthuyuga Yatra present connected Friday (February 13, 2026), Mr. Satheesan said helium felt embarrassed to deliberation that specified incidents were happening successful Kerala, a State that often claims to uphold women’s safety. He pointed retired that though the subsister had submitted a ailment to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected November 24, the FIR was registered lone connected December 8.
Describing the hold arsenic a superior lapse connected the portion of the Chief Minister, who besides holds the Home portfolio, Mr. Satheesan demanded an mentation for the alleged inaction. There should not beryllium treble standards successful specified matters, helium said, adding that nationalist campaigns connected societal media astir women’s information could not beryllium substituted for timely ineligible action.
Commending the subsister for her courageousness successful bringing the substance into the nationalist domain, helium observed that the societal stigma and harassment faced by the pistillate aft speaking retired were often worse than the trauma of the battle itself. He said specified a societal ambiance should not beryllium allowed to prevail successful the State.
Mr. Satheesan further alleged large-scale fiscal irregularities successful the behaviour of the Global Ayyappa Meet. The event, helium said, was held crossed the State with hoardings carrying the Chief Minister’s photograph.
Seeks probe
The Opposition leader, who sought a elaborate probe into the incident, alleged that funds were reportedly claimed successful the names of individuals who did not be the programme and adjacent successful the sanction of a Bhajan troupe that did not perform. Though accounts showed that nutrient had been served to 4,000 persons, helium claimed that lone astir 600 turned up for the event.
On the State government’s program to administer schoolhouse textbooks early, Mr. Satheesan said the organisation had been delayed lone erstwhile during the tenure of the UDF and dismissed arsenic propaganda the assertion that students recovered alleviation connected photocopies passim the five-year UDF rule. He noted that delays had occurred during the earlier Left Democratic Front government’s tenure arsenic well.
