After Kerala Congress leader Simi Rose Bell John was expelled from the party, BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said on Monday that Congress, instead of getting the matter investigated, expeller a leader who were fighting for women.
In a self-made video posted on X, Ponnawalla questioned Congress leader Priyanka Vadra, “Will she stand up for Simi Rosebell John or will she keep quiet?
“The Hema Committee report in Kerala has revealed many secrets. Left MLA Mukesh has also been seriously accused of sexual abuse and rape. The Communist Party of Kerala does not do anything about this but the Congress has shown its anti-women face. Party’s senior leader Simi Rosebell John only said that casting couch like thing happens in Kerala Congress too where women are exploited. So the Congress fired her instead of getting it investigated,” he said.
He also slammed the Congress over their slogan, “Ladki hoon, Lad sakti hu.”
“Then this party says that girls can fight. When they started fighting, they were expelled from the party. Will Priyanka Vadra stand up for Simi Rosebell John or will she keep quiet?” Poonawalla added.
Simi John was expelled from the party on Sunday following her alleged derogatory remarks against women leaders of the Congress in an interview with a private TV channel.
According to the statement from the Kerala Congress, Simi Rose Bell John’s accusations were aimed at mentally harassing and defaming lakhs of women leaders and workers in the Congress movement, allegedly in collusion with political adversaries.
In her reply to the charges by the Congress, Simi Rose Bell John in a news conference in Kochi lashed out at the Congress saying, “Recently a person who worked for this party for long time was expelled, the reason was that his person conspired with CPI(M) but there is no evidence, if they have it, they should make it public. The state President of Mahila Congress Lathika Subash has shared her pain with me…she was also expelled it; you can guess the reason. K Karunakaran’s daughter Padmaja Venugopal was also insulted and expelled, she even posted about it.”
She also said that the only mistake on her part was that she had become the voice of women in the party.
“The only mistake I made was I became the voice of the women here…if I conspired with CPI(M) they should prove it. They tried to stomp upon a helpless widow like me…VD Satheesan is not scared of anyone…so many people who were with me are in different posts now. I feel now scared to walk on the road, anything can happen to me,” she said.
