Sexual misconduct charges against Mamkootathil cast shadow over Cong. during poll campaign

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Youth Congress State wide caput Sajna B. Sajan successful a societal media station said she had written to the All India Congress Committee (AICC), including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, seeking an enquiry committee comprising national-level women leaders of nationalist lasting to conscionable the alleged survivors, grounds their statements, and alteration the enactment to instrumentality a stance connected the allegations against Congress legislator Rahul Mamkootathil.

Ms. Sajan said she was the unfortunate of a seemingly well-coordinated cyberattack, which included a flood of invective, threats, and misogynist slurs. She said the ailment to the AICC was an enactment of defiance against specified vituperative attacks.

Meanwhile, Communist Party of India (Marxist)  State caput M.V. Govindan demanded Mr. Mamkootathil’s contiguous resignation. He said the accused’s continuation arsenic Palakkad MLA was legally and morally untenable. 

The Congress moved to antagonistic the demand. AICC wide caput in-charge of Kerala Deepa Dasmusi appeared to find responsibility with the alleged subsister for approaching the Chief Minister’s governmental bureau alternatively of the police. “The Congress champions the regularisation of law,” she said. 

Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Sunny Joseph, MLA, said the lawsuit was astatine a nascent stage. “An accusation is not a declaration of guilt by a tribunal of law,” helium added. 

United Democratic Front  convener Adoor Prakash said the timing of the ailment seemed suspicious and profoundly political. “Several Congress leaders, including me, person borne the load of mendacious charges, lone for the tribunal to find them unsubstantiated,” helium said.

Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan declined to comment. 

Former  Bharatiya Janata Party State president K. Surendran asked the Congress to unit Mr. Mamkootathil to resign arsenic legislator. He besides demanded the contiguous apprehension of Mr. Mamkootathil.

Published - November 27, 2025 08:54 p.m. IST

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