A betrothal ceremony kicks up controversy in Kerala Congress

The participation of former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala in the betrothal ceremony of the daughter of controversial hotelier Biju Ramesh has kicked up a row with Kerala PCC chief V M Sudheeran coming up openly against it.
Megha, the daughter of Biju, the Bar Hotel Owners' Association Working President, who had levelled bribery charges on former ministers K M Mani and K Babu in the alleged bar bribery scam, was engaged to ex-revenue minister Adoor Prakash's son Ajay Krishnan at a function here on Thursday.
Mani and Babu were ministers in the previous Congress-led UDF government.

A debate kicked up when the hotelier put a post on the Facebook thanking everyone who attended the function.
Without naming them, Sudheeran said the senior leaders should have stayed away from the function as it would send a "wrong message" in the public.
"Though marriages and betrothals are private functions, some proprieties should be followed while attending such ceremonies. Otherwise, it will give a wrong message to the public," he told reporters here when asked about this yesterday.

He said Biju was a person who had "tainted" the image of the UDF government and put it on the "brink of a crisis".

Besides Chandy and Chennithala, several other leaders cutting across party lines attended betrothal ceremony.
Chandy and Chennithala are yet to react to the KPCC's chief's statement.