After being refused to get a ticket for the upcoming Kerala assembly elections, Congress leader Lathika Subhash decided to had her head tonsured on Sunday at the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) headquarters here which created a lot of buzzes in Kerela as well across the nation.
She also declared her resignation as president of the Mahila Congress in defiance of the Congress’s failure to support female candidates in the Assembly elections.
Speculation of her joining the BJP were also roaming around the political corner but in an interview given to ANI she said :
“I had my hair shaved off to express respect for the party’s female members. Subhash, “I am not joining any party, but I am resigning from my position.”
“Everybody knows what is going on,” she replied when asked whether she had reached out to the Congress High Command before taking the extreme step.
Lathika Subhash said she wanted to compete in Ettumanoor, but she was denied the opportunity.
“I have been working at the party since I was 16. I have more experience in Congress than many of the MLAs have put together. Always, my name appears in the first list and is omitted from the final list,” she said.
Of the list of 86 candidates released on 14th of march by the Congress, only 9 are women, as reported by news agency PTI.
Political Reactions poured In
Reacting to the developments, State Congress President Mullappally Ramachandran denied her allegation that she had been sidelined.
She’s always been a very obedient party member, and the Congress hasn’t forgotten her, he added
“This time we couldn’t find her an appropriate constituency to compete upon, but it wasn’t deliberate. She wanted the seat of Ettumanoor, which the party decided to offer to the Joseph faction of Kerala Congress (M).
The leader of the opposition in the state assembly, Ramesh Chennithala, said the party had tried its best to include all, and there are many capable leaders who have not been granted a ticket to this election.
