Cong. taps into public outrage over child’s murder to assail LDF govt.
The Hindu
The Congress, tapping into the ground swell of public outrage over the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl child hailing from a migrant worker family in Aluva in Ernakulam, assailed the government for alleged police apathy and incompetence.
The Congress, tapping into the ground swell of public outrage over the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl child hailing from a migrant worker family in Aluva in Ernakulam, assailed the government for alleged police apathy and incompetence.
It also gave the heinous crime a national dimension, with Congress leader Benny Behanan, MP, raising the issue in the Parliament.
At home, Congress workers marched to the Aluva police station, accusing the police of not taking a crack at tracing the missing child and sitting on the complaint lodged by the hapless parents.
According to the sources, the Left leaders argued that at a time when the entire Opposition was united on the demand that the Prime Minister give a statement on Manipur on the floor of the House and was working under the common INDIA banner, why were the Congress MPs bringing local issues to the floor of Parliament, trying to corner the LDF government in Kerala.
One of the Left leaders said, “They talk big about it being a larger battle and unity to face the stronger machinery of the BJP, then why are they dragging in these local issues?”
The Congress, on its part, tried to placate the Left leaders and asked them to understand the compulsion and commitments of each MP towards their constituency.
The incident catalysed the Congress protest against the Pinarayi Vijayan government’s alleged subversion of law enforcement to wreak political vengeance against Opposition leaders and the independent media.
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