Overview

• AICC general secretary Deepa Dasmunshi said the party has received no complaint and no FIR has been registered, calling his Youth Congress exit a voluntary step.
• Opposition leader V. D. Satheesan described the resignation as a first phase and said the national leadership would constitute a committee to assess the accusations and consider further action.
• CPI(M) and BJP organisations held street demonstrations and warned they would boycott the legislator in Palakkad, while SFI announced a mass letter campaign to Sonia Gandhi seeking his resignation from the Assembly.
• Congress voices diverged, with Satheesan urging a serious examination and protection of complainants as MP Shafi Parambil stressed that no case exists and defended Mamkootathil.
• Satheesan rebuked MP V. K. Sreekantan over deprecating remarks about a woman accuser, saying he later recanted the comment.