Attack on Shafi Parambil: Congress to maneuver parliamentary privilege panel

M.Ok. Raghavan, Kozhikode MP, has mentioned that the Congress is planning to strategy the Parliamentary Committee on Privileges within the Lok Sabha to hunt motion towards the police personnel who attacked Shafi Parambil, Vadakara MP, with lathis at Perambra within the district on Friday (October 10, 2025) vnight.

Mr. Raghavan was opening a ‘dharna’ organised by the United Democratic Front (UDF) outdoors the workplace of the Inspector-General of Police in Kozhikode on Saturday (October 11, 2025) morning in protest towards the police motion.

Mr. Parambil suffered nasal accidents after the incident and he’s present process therapy at a non-public hospital in Kozhikode metropolis. The incident occurred after activists of the UDF and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) employees got here head to head following a ‘hartal’ known as by the previous within the city, which was a fallout of a college students’ union election in a authorities school there.

Mr. Raghavan mentioned that the police personnel who attacked Mr. Parambil could be compelled to face the questions of the privilege committee in New Delhi. He additionally alleged that the police had acted on the behest of the LDF authorities, which was determined to save lots of its face from the Sabarimala gold plating controversy.

Meanwhile, there was stress for some time outdoors the Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode, earlier within the day when a gaggle of Congress leaders, together with T. Siddique, Kalpetta MLA, V.P. Dulkhifil and Ok.M. Abhijith have been prevented from visiting Kerala Students Union activists from Perambra who have been injured through the protest in Perambra. The Congress leaders alleged that they have been manhandled by CPI(M) activists. The KSU activists have been later shifted to the personal hospital, the place Mr. Parambil has been admitted.

Ok.C. Venugopal, All-India Congress Committee normal secretary in-charge of organisation, advised the media in Kannur that the police motion towards Mr. Parambil was a part of the federal government’s technique to wriggle out of the Sabarimala fiasco. Mr. Venugopal claimed that the Congress MP was simply visiting a spot in his constituency to ease a unstable state of affairs there when he was attacked by the police.