A political tit-for-tat has emerged in Kerala, with a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader filing a "missing person" complaint against Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi. This action follows a similar complaint lodged by a Congress student leader against Union Minister and Thrissur MP Suresh Gopi just a day earlier.
Palliyara Mukundan, the president of the BJP's Scheduled Tribe Morcha, submitted his complaint to the district police chief, claiming that the Congress MP has been "missing" from her constituency for the past three months. Mukundan further claimed that Priyanka Gandhi was absent from the landslide-affected Chooralmala-Mundakai areas and accused her of not engaging with the tribal community’s issues in the constituency, which is predominantly inhabited by marginalised groups.
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On Sunday, Kerala Students' Union (KSU) district president Gokul Guruvayoor filed a “missing” complaint with the police, alleging that Gopi had been “inaccessible” to the people of his constituency and district for some time.
The KSU leader claimed that the Thrissur Lok Sabha MP had not visited his constituency in the last three months and had remained silent on the recent arrest of two Catholic nuns from the state in Chhattisgarh. This reciprocal filing of complaints highlights the increasingly competitive and personalised nature of political discourse in Kerala.
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