Unhappy with the Left parties’ public campaign asking former Congress president Rahul Gandhi not to contest from the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala, a seat that the Communist Party of India (CPI) stakes claim to, the Congress has upped the ante with repeated attacks on the functioning of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s government in Parliament.
On Monday, Kerala party president and MP K. Sudhakaran moved an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha decrying the alleged high-handedness and human rights violations by the Kerala police. On Tuesday, during the zero hour in the Rajya Sabha, Congress member Jebi Mather raised the issue of farmers’ suicide in Kerala, allegedly because of inordinate delay in payment of paddy dues by the State government.
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