The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on Thursday (December 4, 2025) expelled Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil from the party in a definitive attempt to draw a line under a serial sexual predation scandal that has haunted the United Democratic Front (UDF) Opposition in Kerala since August.

The decision came close on the heels of a district court in Thiruvananthapuram rejecting the MLA’s anticipatory bail plea in a rape and coerced termination of pregnancy case based on a complaint filed last Thursday by a woman acquaintance of his.

In a terse press release, KPCC president Sunny Joseph stated that Mr Mamkootathil’s continuation in the party had become “ethically untenable” in the wake of accusations of serial sexual predation.

Matters reached a critical threshold for Mr Mamkootat

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