Kerala Cong cries foul over police raid on hotel rooms of women leaders, moves ECI

Ahead of Palakkad Assembly bye-election, Kerala Leader of Opposition, V.D. Satheesan of the Congress on Thursday said the midnight swoop by police in Palakkad to seize allegedly unaccounted cash from hotel rooms of women Congress leaders was a blatant example of political vendetta.

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The Congress leader also claimed that he had filed a complaint with the Election Commission of India over the failed attempt to implicate Congress leaders.

"What we all witnessed the other day was an action by the police under the pretext of enforcing Election Commission guidelines but not a single official, who ought to be present when the police undertakes such a raid, was there," said Satheesan, referring to the incidents that took place in the wee hours of Tuesday.