ThiruvananthapuramAugust 21, 2025 08:17 pm
First printed: August 21, 2025, 6:58pm
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MLA Rahul Mamkootathil’s star was on the rise earlier than he left the Kerala Youth Congress president on Thursday. A transparent speaker, he was the voice of the get together on primetime tv debate.
His disagreeable exit comes after allegations from journalist-turned-actor Lini Anne George {that a} fashionable TV “younger politician” despatched her indecent message and invited her to a resort. It was believed she was referring to Mamkootathil.
Mamkort-Chil, a local of Central Kerala’s Patanumtitta district, has grow to be the Placcod Mlakkad MLA after profitable a by-election final November.
Mamkootathil was hand-picked as a candidate for Palakkad regardless of protests from some native council leaders. PR Sarin, hoping for tickets from her seat, even stopped Congress in protest.
Mamkootathil started with the Kerala Pupil Union, the scholar wing of the Meeting, earlier than turning into state basic secretary of the Youth Congress. His success in representing the get together in tv debate led to his promotion as head of the Youth Congress within the 2023 election.
The allegations {that a} checklist of voters have been geared up for organised elections didn’t trigger his rise on account of his relationship with key leaders of Kerala Meeting.
outdated good friend
One of many long-standing friendships he had is the Paramaville. An acquaintance of Paramaville has opened the door to senior parliamentary leaders and opposition leaders in Mamuktathir’s Kerala Congress VD Satheesan.
The Palakkad meeting sheet is believed to have landed on his lap for these connections.
It’s believed that Satheesan and Parambil helped Mamkootathil by means of different controversies. Like what he made after Padmaja Venugopal, daughter of late Congress Titan Ok. Karnakaran, left the get together forward of the 2024 election for Lok Sabah.
He referred to as Benugopal a “traitor” who couldn’t be thought-about “political to the daughter of a father.” Some Congressional leaders complained to him and accused him of “shaming” Karnakaran’s reminiscence.
Through the Nirumble Bypole elections held in June, Mamkutachil referred to as for one more controversy during which he allegedly threatened an officer who stopped a automobile he was touring with Paramaville as a part of a routine election examine.
On the identical bipole, Mamuktuchil was mentioned to have held a secret assembly with former CPI(M)-backed legislator PV Anvar after he hit Seisan. Mamkootathil tried to clarify that he was solely in search of Anvar’s help for his battle towards Prime Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, however Satheesan additionally referred to as the assembly inappropriate. CPI(M) mentioned the assembly confirmed a secret ties between Congress and Amber.
However Mamkootathil’s luck might have lastly run out. And given the newest claims, tickets from Parakad could also be tough within the 2026 Kerala Meeting ballot.
In her claims, Lini mentioned she had an disagreeable expertise with younger politicians working on the frontlines of tv channels and upsetting. She claimed {that a} politician who grew to become pals along with her by means of social media despatched her indecent messages and invited her to her resort room. She argued that different ladies, together with ladies in Congress, had related experiences.
