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Parading a Chief Minister as an offender
By O.J.George
Kottayam: What did we see these days in Kerala? A Chief Minister has been paraded in every nook and corner as an offender by his own party bosses.
Nook and corner is figurative, in the sense representative figures were all there in the zonal conferences of the CPM held at Vadakara, Ernakulam and Thiruvananthapuram.
The party Popes were drumming up support among the cadres for the stripping, emasculation and immobilization of V.S.Achuthanandan.
To pour chilly powder on the wounds, Prakash Karat has been saying on and off VS has been an accomplished leader before he was born, “Brutus-is-an-honourable-man”-style.
Nowhere in the world, democratic or totalitarian, this sort of deliberate weakening of a Chief Minister by his own partymen would be tolerated.
They may say this is a party affair. No doubt, it is. But these days when the media have access one way or other about the goings-on within, the humiliating affairs at the closed-door conclaves appear on the public domain.
The most paradoxical and embarrassing aspect of the episode is that the Chief Minister was being ‘attacked’ in his own presence.
This is just like officially reprimanding an offender, kept enclosed in a boxed chamber, and then taken to the execution chamber.
If someone thought VS would step down on his own, not able to suffer the ignominies any more, they are proved wrong. VS intends to keep going. Extreme provocations do not deter him to wait and watch out for an opportune moment.
‘Come September, I love to remember’, may be his silent refrain. Lavalin case is posted for September, when Pinarayi will be officially arrayed as an accused by the CBI in court.
He has to bail himself out in a criminal case.
Then, Pinarayi is trying his best to delay, and if possible to scuttle, the processes against him.
Reports suggest that Pinarayi is probing the possibility of approaching the Supreme Court, appealing against the action of Governor R.S.Gavai in issuing sanction for his prosecution in the Lavalin case disregarding the opinion of the state cabinet.
Perhaps, by seeking vetting by a constitutional bench of the apex court, he could buy more time, if not get himself ejected from the Lavalin dragnet.
Various interests are playing their cards close to their chest, offending and defending, with not just nicks and cuts but with gashes being caused to the state polity using double-edged weapons.
Kottayam: What did we see these days in Kerala? A Chief Minister has been paraded in every nook and corner as an offender by his own party bosses.
Nook and corner is figurative, in the sense representative figures were all there in the zonal conferences of the CPM held at Vadakara, Ernakulam and Thiruvananthapuram.
The party Popes were drumming up support among the cadres for the stripping, emasculation and immobilization of V.S.Achuthanandan.
To pour chilly powder on the wounds, Prakash Karat has been saying on and off VS has been an accomplished leader before he was born, “Brutus-is-an-honourable-man”-style.
Nowhere in the world, democratic or totalitarian, this sort of deliberate weakening of a Chief Minister by his own partymen would be tolerated.
They may say this is a party affair. No doubt, it is. But these days when the media have access one way or other about the goings-on within, the humiliating affairs at the closed-door conclaves appear on the public domain.
The most paradoxical and embarrassing aspect of the episode is that the Chief Minister was being ‘attacked’ in his own presence.
This is just like officially reprimanding an offender, kept enclosed in a boxed chamber, and then taken to the execution chamber.
If someone thought VS would step down on his own, not able to suffer the ignominies any more, they are proved wrong. VS intends to keep going. Extreme provocations do not deter him to wait and watch out for an opportune moment.
‘Come September, I love to remember’, may be his silent refrain. Lavalin case is posted for September, when Pinarayi will be officially arrayed as an accused by the CBI in court.
He has to bail himself out in a criminal case.
Then, Pinarayi is trying his best to delay, and if possible to scuttle, the processes against him.
Reports suggest that Pinarayi is probing the possibility of approaching the Supreme Court, appealing against the action of Governor R.S.Gavai in issuing sanction for his prosecution in the Lavalin case disregarding the opinion of the state cabinet.
Perhaps, by seeking vetting by a constitutional bench of the apex court, he could buy more time, if not get himself ejected from the Lavalin dragnet.
Various interests are playing their cards close to their chest, offending and defending, with not just nicks and cuts but with gashes being caused to the state polity using double-edged weapons.
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