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The United Democratic Front (UDF) has accused Mayor M. Anilkumar of insulting the metropolis by failing to person President Droupadi Murmu during her sojourn to Kochi connected Friday (October 24, 2025).
In a connection issued a time aft the visit, the UDF parliamentary enactment said that, arsenic the archetypal national of Kochi and successful accordance with protocol, the Mayor should person received the President successful his authoritative gown.
Insulting the President simply due to the fact that helium was not invited to a relation organised by an acquisition instauration amounted to insulting the city. Holding a law post, specified behaviour was unbecoming of the Mayor. Given his adjacent relation with the instauration concerned, the contented could person been resolved with a elemental telephone call, but instead, it was allowed to escalate into an enactment that disrespected the city, said the connection issued by UDF leaders successful the Corporation, Antony Kureethara and M.G. Aristotle.
On Friday, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) parliamentary enactment and the territory committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] had condemned the alleged unceremonious exclusion of Mayor M. Anilkumar from the relation attended by the President.
The LDF parliamentary enactment stated that the exclusion of the Mayor amounted to a usurpation of antiauthoritarian principles and alleged that specified repeated actions were politically motivated, driven by discomfort implicit the popularity of the Mayor and the LDF-led governing committee helium heads. The CPI(M) territory committee besides condemned the exclusion, calling it governmental vendetta.
