K.K. Shailaja, Left Democratic Front (LDF) candidate in the Vadakara Lok Sabha constituency, has accused the United Democratic Front (UDF) of resorting to personal attacks against her through social media accounts to counter the LDF’s rising popularity.
She told the media here on Monday that the LDF would file a complaint with the Election Commission of India against this.
Ms. Shailaja said that morphed pictures of her had been posted on an Instagram page titled ‘Ente Vadkara KL18’. They were also being forwarded to WhatsApp groups of families in a bid to humiliate her. “Some of the remarks that I made in a TV channel interview were misquoted. One of my photos with a person called Noufal Kottiyam is being circulated saying he is one of the accused in the Panoor bomb blast case. Later, a letter pad of Sunni leader Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliar was forged to start a campaign against me,” she alleged.
