Minutes after a court rejected the anticipatory bail plea of legislator Rahul Mamkootathil, the Congress in Kerala expelled him from the party. Mamkootathil, who had been suspended by the party in the wake of multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, has now been removed from the primary membership of the Congress.

Congress state president Sunny Joseph, in a statement, said that the decision was taken considering the cases registered against him and other complaints that have emerged since.

“The party high command has been consulted in this regard. It is better that he quit as a legislator. The Congress has never protected him. When allegations came up in the media, we suspended him and removed him from the legislative party of the Congress, which kept him away from the Congress benches

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