CNN Central News & Network–ITDC India Epress/ITDC News Bhopal: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor once again threw his weight behind CPI(M) legislator and actor Mukesh, who was arrested in a sexual assault case on Tuesday. The Kollam MLA need not resign because he was booked in the case, the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha member and intellectual said.
The Congress and the CPI(M) are bitter rivals in the southern state despite being members of the I.N.D.I Alliance nationally. Tharoor’s party colleague and Kollam DCC chief Bindhu Krishnan was defeated by popular Mollywood star Mukesh to get re-elected from his home turf.
Tharoor once again backed the Left leader while his party remains on the warpath demanding his resignation.
If Mukesh resigns now and is proven innocent in the said case three months later, there is no way for him to reclaim the position, Tharoor said. The police are doing their job, but there is no need for a person to resign his office based on an accusation, he said.
The former Union Minister of State said that this was his personal opinion and not that of his party, Mathrubhimi reported.
