Lok Sabha 2024: Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan slams INDIA ally Congress for fielding ‘supporter’ of Kathua rape accused

Vijayan alleged that Singh had participated successful a rally successful enactment of the accused successful the rape and execution of an eight-year-old miss successful Kathua successful January 2018.

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"This intelligibly shows that the Congress is not taking a beardown basal against the Sangh Parivar," Vijayan was quoted by PTI arsenic saying during a property league successful this Muslim-dominated district. He reportedly said the Congress “lacks immoderate genuine ideological oregon applicable information to reason the BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party], beyond the rhetoric crafted by news-centric PR agencies".

CM Pinarayi Vijayan is simply a person of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) — which is portion of the INDIA bloc astatine the nationalist level but rival of the Congress successful Kerala.

Who is Choudhary Lal Singh?

Choudhary Lal Singh hails from Kathua district. He is simply a erstwhile BJP leader. He had rejoined the Congress astatine its office successful Delhi past month.

Singh has been fielded from the Udhampur Parliamentary constituency of Jammu and Kashmir. He volition contention against BJP campaigner and Union Minister Jitendra Singh and the Democratic Progressive Azad Party has fielded GM Saroori.

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Singh won the Udhampur Lok Sabha spot doubly connected a Congress summons successful 2004 and 2009. He switched from the Congress to the BJP successful 2014 and was besides a curate successful the erstwhile PDP-BJP authorities successful Jammu and Kashmir, which collapsed successful June 2018 aft the nationalist enactment pulled retired of the alliance.

Several months earlier the autumn of the government, Singh resigned from the BJP and floated the DSSP pursuing an uproar implicit his information successful a rally successful enactment of the accused successful the rape and execution of the eight-year-old miss successful Kathua successful January 2018. However, helium defended his information successful the rally, stating that helium was determination to “defuse the situation", quality bureau PTI reported.

Polling successful the Udhampur Lok Sabha constituency volition beryllium held connected April 19.

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Published: 18 Apr 2024, 04:11 PM IST