Congress walkout in MP assembly over encounter killing
Tribal Congress MLA Omkar Singh Markam demanded a high-level inquiry into the police encounter of a tribal man.
Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday visited the house of a woman who lost her life in a tiger attack last week in Wayanad district of Kerala.
Priyanka was accompanied by KPCC president K Sudhakaran, AICC general secretary K C Venugopal and other leaders.
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Party sources claimed the Wayanad MP will hold a meeting at the collectorate after meeting the victim’s family. She is also scheduled to visit the family of N M Vijayan, the former treasurer of DCC, who committed suicide.
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The victim, Radha, was killed by the tiger when she was out collecting coffee beans at the Priyadarshini Estate in Mananthavady village here on January 24.
The ‘man-eater’ tiger that killed Radha was found dead in Kerala’s high-range district of Wayanad on Monday. The post-mortem revealed that fresh, deep wounds found on the neck of the feline were the cause of its death.
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