Thiruvananthapuram: KPCC leadership took up in a big way the remand and non-bailable provisions slapped on Kannur-based Dalit leader N. Rajan’s daughters Akhila and Anjana which saw the local police buckling under pressure and getting bail by evening. Akhila's infant was also in jail, and they were accused of trespassing into the CPM office and assaulting its workers in their stronghold after they lodged a complaint about calling caste names.
PCC president V. M. Sudheeran has said that it is 'primitive justice' being meted out to these Dalit women and their infant. The incident became a major rallying point with the Congress leaders standing united and used it to attack CPM leadership's intolerance against political opponents.
The girl’s father is a Congress block secretary and had contested against Karayi Chandrasekharan in the local elections. Last week, he was attacked by the CPM local leaders. Kannur based Congress leaders told DC that the sisters were facing harassment for long. Recently, they lost their cool and confronted the hooligans passing comments.
“Unfortunately, the local CPM leaders lodged a complaint that these women attacked them at the CPM branch committee office. The area is notorious for CPM showing high-handedness. Congress leaders don’t have a chance of having a foothold over there,” said a Kannur-based KPCC general secretary.
Mr Sudheeran had on Friday led a march on Thalassery police station protesting the arrest. A peeved Mr Sudheeran said in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday that the action of the police had been primitive. He alleged that the police acting to the whims and fancies of their political bosses was unwarranted. He said the area was known as the place of hooligans who attacked former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy.
