Author Honey Bhaskaran has accused Congress Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil of inappropriate behaviour. In a Fb publish, she detailed the alleged misconduct. Right here’s what she alleged.
The Youth Congress state president had first contacted her by means of Instagram on June 9 whereas she was in Sri Lanka. He reacted to considered one of her images with a coronary heart emoji and commenced asking about her journey. He additionally joked in regards to the Nilambur elections.
At first, Honey replied casually however later seen a flirtatious tone in his messages. She then selected to not reply additional, and the chat ended.
“I realized the vulgar reality behind why you messaged me,” the author from Kerala wrote.
Later, she heard from others that Rahul had allegedly bragged in regards to the chat throughout a ingesting session, twisting the story as if she had approached him. He allegedly unfold this false declare inside his political circle. She mentioned her suspicions about his behaviour have been confirmed when different girls spoke of comparable harassment.
“Girls must know this facet of you. A person who chats with girls after which distorts these conversations amongst perverts to mock and disgrace them,” Honey wrote.
“I worry for the ladies in your individual social gathering who’ve interacted with you. How a lot vulgarity should they’ve endured from you? Girls who shared any type of privateness with it’s essential to now be dwelling in silent worry,” she added.
Senior Congress leaders are ‘conscious’
The author additional alleged that even senior leaders like Shafi Parambil have been conscious of such behaviour however ignored complaints. In line with Honey, males like Rahul misuse girls’s belief, twist personal talks into vulgar gossip and unfold false tales that trigger trauma. She described such acts as extra harmful than direct harassment.
“Folks like you’re unfit to even be close to girls in public areas, not to mention proceed in politics. Such males make politics itself inhuman,” she wrote.
Honey added that Rahul’s shut colleagues had themselves warned her about his actions. In line with her, if those that spend time with him day by day revealed these truths, it might present the extent of his shame.
“Rahul Mamkootathil, you filthy spider, it was not your enemies however your closest Congress colleagues…If even they really feel compelled to convey this reality to somebody like me, think about how deeply they should have understood your shame,” she added.
Honey urged Rahul Mamkootathil to resign from politics.
“When you’ve got any shred of integrity left in your political profession, the one honourable step now you can take is to give up politics altogether. That’s the actual dignity,” she concluded.
