Even as the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] suspended former Thiruvambady MLA and party district secretariat member George M. Thomas from the party for a year for alleged financial irregularities and violation of party discipline, protest is gaining momentum in the district under the leadership of the Congress seeking a high-level probe into allegations against him.
The Congress leadership said that the senior CPI(M) leader was suspended for his alleged attempt to influence the police and save an influential expatriate from a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) case registered in 2009.
The Thiruvambady CPI(M) area committee had reportedly taken up all allegations against him with the State committee seeking disciplinary action. There were reportedly statements of the POCSO case victim and her family members, who were CPI(M) sympathisers, in a report submitted by a two-member panel to the State committee.
