Irattayar (Idukki): In what could embarrass the grand previous get together within the run as much as the Kerala Assembly elections the place campaigning has reached an intense pitch, former Idukki MP Joyce George has stirred an issue calling Congress chief Rahul Gandhi an “unmarried trouble maker”.
George made this unwarranted comment whereas addressing an election rally at Irattayar in Kerala’s Idukki district on Monday the place he lashed out on the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Gandhi scion specifically.
George, who had received the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Idukki because the CPI (M) supported unbiased candidate, whereas referring to Gandhi’s go to to a girls’s faculty in Kochi final week for an interplay with the scholars alleged the previous Congress president visits solely girls’s faculties and requested the ladies to be “cautious” whereas coping with him.
“Girls never bend down in front of him… he is an unmarried trouble maker,” PTI quoted George as saying.
The Congress leaders in Kerala went ballistic over George’s diatribe in opposition to Gandhi with Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala dubbing his remarks to be “unfortunate and unacceptable”. He additionally demanded George’s arrest whereas categorically stating {that a} case needs to be registered in opposition to the previous Idukki MP.
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, nonetheless, distanced himself from George’s remarks whereas interacting with the media in Kasaragod on Tuesday stating the Left Democratic Front (LDF) will oppose Gandhi “politically not personally”