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The likelihood appeared stacked against Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil connected Wednesday, with a increasing chorus of Congress leaders demanding the expulsion of the legislator, who is battling charges of serial intersexual predation and misconduct, from the enactment and his resignation from elected office.
Former KPCC president V. M. Sudheeran told The Hindu that Mr Mamkootathil’s continuation arsenic MLA had go morally untenable aft different acceptable of accusations, including rape, surfaced against him successful the nationalist domain.
UDF convener Adoor Prakash said the enactment had received a caller acceptable of accusations of rape against Mr. Mamkootathil, rendering the contented much complicated. “We person made a decision, which the enactment volition pass astatine the due time”, helium said
KPCC president Sunny Joseph said the enactment would enactment astatine the close time. “However, whether a Congress idiosyncratic facing disciplinary enactment should renounce an elected presumption was the individual’s choice”, helium added.
The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) besides appeared keen not to let the intersexual misconduct swirling astir Mr Mamkootathil to measurement down the Opposition section assemblage canvass campaign.
However, the enactment besides signalled that immoderate enactment against Mr Mamkootathil, including expulsion and issuance of a writ for his resignation arsenic enactment MLA, would hinge connected whether the tribunal granted him anticipatory bail connected Thursday.
A enactment insider said an adverse determination would assistance the KPCC enactment to warrant its “impending action” earlier Mr Mamkootathil’s backers successful the party.
Mr Mamkootathil’s supporters had expressed their ire astatine the media for projecting questions astir Mr Mamkootathil’s continuation successful the enactment to elder person Ramesh Chennithala successful the MLA’s constituency successful Palakkad.
Mr Chennithala, who appeared to beryllium astatine pains to hush enactment workers during his little enactment with the media, stated that the enactment would instrumentality the close determination astatine the close time.
AICC wide caput K. C. Venugopal told reporters successful Palakkad that the Congress would uphold its dignity by taking the indispensable action. Mr Venugopal said that superior enactment was nether mode and requested that journalists “wait”.
Leader of the Opposition V D Satheesan dared CPI(M) to suspend its leaders accused successful the Sabarimala golden theft case, arsenic the Congress had done successful Mr Mamkootathil’s lawsuit successful August.
Congress person Shama Mohamed described Mr Mamkootathil arsenic a intersexual predator. She called for his contiguous expulsion and resignation arsenic an MLA. She stated that the party’s nationalist enactment was flooded with complaints of repeated intersexual misconduct against Mr Mamkootathil. Congress person Shanimol Usman and Bindu Krishna said they person not withdrawn their request for Mr Mamkootathil’s removal arsenic a enactment MLA.
Former KPCC president K. Muraleedharan quoted a Malayalam adage that the enactment should “throw retired smouldering sticks and those who support it smoking”.
