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The Hindu Bureau
All India Congress Committee (AICC) wide caput K.C. Venugopal, MP, expressed daze astatine the brutal sidesplitting of Dalit migrant idiosyncratic Ram Narayan Bhagal from Chhattisgarh astatine Walayar successful Palakkad. He powerfully criticised the State government’s alleged indifference successful preventing the recurrence of mob lynching.
In a connection present connected Sunday (December 21, 2025), Mr. Venugopal said the State authorities was unwilling to adjacent “move a finger” to guarantee specified crimes bash not hap again. “How tin the Chief Minister, who repeatedly condemns mob lynchings successful northbound India, stay indifferent to the humor spilled connected his ain soil?” helium asked. He added that the authorities cannot evade work for what helium termed a superior nonaccomplishment successful maintaining instrumentality and order, and demanded that the Chief Minister respond to the incident.
The Congress person called for contiguous compensation to the victim’s household and insisted that each arrangements to transport the assemblage to his autochthonal spot beryllium made escaped of outgo by the State. He besides demanded stringent ineligible enactment against those liable for the mob killing.
Mr. Venugopal said different quality beingness had been mislaid owed to the State government’s apathy and negligence. Recalling the mob lynching of tribal younker Madhu 7 years ago, helium said the representation of that transgression has not faded, adjacent arsenic Kerala witnesses yet different horrific lynching.
“Kerala, known arsenic a progressive nine that upholds equality and fraternity, becoming a signifier for repeated mob trials and killings is unacceptable and indispensable ne'er beryllium allowed to recur,” helium said.
