Kerala Mahila Congress State president P. Bindu Kishna said here on Saturday that the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government’s attitude towards Dalits and women who were victims of violence had been exposed within a month of the government assuming office.
Inaugurating a gathering organised by the women’s wing of the Congress, Ms. Krishna said the arrest of two Dalit siblings, daughters of a local Congress functionary at Thalassery, and the subsequent remarks by Communist Party of India (Marxist) leaders were indicative of the new government’s stand. She said the government did not even have a word of consolation to the women.
Whither weapons, wounds?
Though the CPI(M) leaders had said that the women had been arrested for attacking Democratic Youth Federation of India workers inside the CPI(M) local office at Kuttimakkul, a CPI(M) stronghold, at Thalassery, with dangerous weapons, they could neither disclose the weapons allegedly used by the women, nor show the wounds suffered by the DYFI workers. The CPI(M)’s attack on the women reflected the party’s intolerance against workers of rival political parties, she said.
Social activist P. Geetha, in her address, said the CPI(M) should introspect the incidents at Kuttimakkool. Otherwise, people would think political decay had set in the party, she said. RMP leader K.K. Rema also spoke.
