“CPM offices are becoming centres of rape. (Shutterstock)A student activist has accused an SFI worker and college mate of raping her at a party office in Kerala last June, the incident coming to light weeks after she abandoned her newborn baby near her home on February 16. Youth wings of the Congress, BJP and the Indian Union Muslim League on Thursday separately protested in front of the party office where the rape allegedly took place. Kerala CPM leaders had refused to act upon multiple written complaints from the woman, who then had to write to CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury seeking action against Sasi. Earlier in 2011, the CPM had to expel a former district secretary of the powerful Kannur unit, P. Sasi, in the aftermath of a rape case.

Source: The Telegraph March 21, 2019 21:11 UTC