Attack on Shafi Parambil: Congress to move parliamentary privilege panel

M.K. Raghavan, Kozhikode MP, has said that the Congress is planning to approach the Parliamentary Committee on Privileges in the Lok Sabha to seek action against the police personnel who attacked Shafi Parambil, Vadakara MP, with lathis at Perambra in the district on Friday (October 10, 2025) vnight.

Mr. Raghavan was opening a ‘dharna’ organised by the United Democratic Front (UDF) outside the office of the Inspector-General of Police in Kozhikode on Saturday (October 11, 2025) morning in protest against the police action.

Mr. Parambil suffered nasal injuries after the incident and he is undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Kozhikode city. The incident happened after activists of the UDF and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) workers came face to face following a ‘hartal’ called by the former in the town, which was a fallout of a students’ union election in a government college there.

Mr. Raghavan said that the police personnel who attacked Mr. Parambil would be forced to face the questions of the privilege committee in New Delhi. He also alleged that the police had acted at the behest of the LDF government, which was desperate to save its face from the Sabarimala gold plating controversy.

Meanwhile, there was tension for a while outside the Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode, earlier in the day when a group of Congress leaders, including T. Siddique, Kalpetta MLA, V.P. Dulkhifil and K.M. Abhijith were prevented from visiting Kerala Students Union activists from Perambra who were injured during the protest in Perambra. The Congress leaders alleged that they were manhandled by CPI(M) activists. The KSU activists were later shifted to the private hospital, where Mr. Parambil has been admitted.

K.C. Venugopal, All-India Congress Committee general secretary in-charge of organisation, told the media in Kannur that the police action against Mr. Parambil was part of the government’s strategy to wriggle out of the Sabarimala fiasco. Mr. Venugopal claimed that the Congress MP was just visiting a place in his constituency to ease a volatile situation there when he was attacked by the police.