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Quirk of fate waiting for many a partner of the LDF
By O.J.George
Kottayam: The fate of small parties in any front is dependent on the robustness of the main party leading them. When the principal protagonist crumbles, minuscule ones sticking on it also perish.
Otherwise, the pygmies should mobilise strength through their own union elsewhere, jointly or severally, or by re-arrangement of political affiliations.
In Kerala, re-arrangements outside of UDF and LDF are unthinkable. BJP is not that reckonable, for it cannot be part of a regime in waiting. What could any party do if it cannot be part of governance sooner or later?
Situations change in other states, but not in Kerala. A few years ago, it was unthinkable that a BJP dispensation would come to power in Karnataka. Maybe because Yeddyurappa had gained considerable sympathy from the people when he was cheated by Deve Gowda. The promised half term of governance was denied to him by Deve Gowda. Anyway the change in favour of the BJP was swift.
In Kerala, the NCP group led by former KPCC chief K.Muraleedharan is in a quandary. There are no takers for him. He went to the extent of telling his leader Sharad Pawar that if he is the problem, he would stand back for a rapprochement with the UDF.
In a different way Kadannappally Ramachandran suffered isolation, but he could pull on by clinging on to the CPM by retaining the old Congress(S). It is do or die for him with the LDF.
During the Lok Sabha elections, the CPI stood up against the CPM regarding seat allocation. Mutual distrust or squabbles within the CPM, the CPI had to bite the dust.
Judging from the precarious condition in which the CPM has fallen into, owing to surging groupism between V.S.Achuthanandan and Pinarayi Vijayan, the LDF partners have a bleak future cut out for them, now that the schism would only worsen.
As for Kerala Congress (Joseph) group, there seems to be a quirk of fate. Strong interests within the party had written off P.J. Joseph when he got embroiled in a sex scandal, public professions of loyalty notwithstanding.
After the rout in the Lok Sabha elections, the party has to mull about its fate in the Assembly elections due in 2011.
Mons Joseph and Surendran Pillai would be struggling, for they have lost their firm grounds. Mons Joseph was playing many cards, one using an acolyte who claims to have clout in the Orthodox Church. Lok Sabha election results have shown that everything is lost. Jugglery will not pay. And if Thomas Chazhikadan comes opposing him in Kaduthuruthy, Mons Joseph’s fate would be sealed.
Surendran Pillai, after hobnobbing with P C Thomas group, has little left to keep afloat in the Assembly polls.
But by a quirk of fate, P.J.Joseph, who was considered a lost soul in politics by many, may be the only survivor.
Kottayam: The fate of small parties in any front is dependent on the robustness of the main party leading them. When the principal protagonist crumbles, minuscule ones sticking on it also perish.
Otherwise, the pygmies should mobilise strength through their own union elsewhere, jointly or severally, or by re-arrangement of political affiliations.
In Kerala, re-arrangements outside of UDF and LDF are unthinkable. BJP is not that reckonable, for it cannot be part of a regime in waiting. What could any party do if it cannot be part of governance sooner or later?
Situations change in other states, but not in Kerala. A few years ago, it was unthinkable that a BJP dispensation would come to power in Karnataka. Maybe because Yeddyurappa had gained considerable sympathy from the people when he was cheated by Deve Gowda. The promised half term of governance was denied to him by Deve Gowda. Anyway the change in favour of the BJP was swift.
In Kerala, the NCP group led by former KPCC chief K.Muraleedharan is in a quandary. There are no takers for him. He went to the extent of telling his leader Sharad Pawar that if he is the problem, he would stand back for a rapprochement with the UDF.
In a different way Kadannappally Ramachandran suffered isolation, but he could pull on by clinging on to the CPM by retaining the old Congress(S). It is do or die for him with the LDF.
During the Lok Sabha elections, the CPI stood up against the CPM regarding seat allocation. Mutual distrust or squabbles within the CPM, the CPI had to bite the dust.
Judging from the precarious condition in which the CPM has fallen into, owing to surging groupism between V.S.Achuthanandan and Pinarayi Vijayan, the LDF partners have a bleak future cut out for them, now that the schism would only worsen.
As for Kerala Congress (Joseph) group, there seems to be a quirk of fate. Strong interests within the party had written off P.J. Joseph when he got embroiled in a sex scandal, public professions of loyalty notwithstanding.
After the rout in the Lok Sabha elections, the party has to mull about its fate in the Assembly elections due in 2011.
Mons Joseph and Surendran Pillai would be struggling, for they have lost their firm grounds. Mons Joseph was playing many cards, one using an acolyte who claims to have clout in the Orthodox Church. Lok Sabha election results have shown that everything is lost. Jugglery will not pay. And if Thomas Chazhikadan comes opposing him in Kaduthuruthy, Mons Joseph’s fate would be sealed.
Surendran Pillai, after hobnobbing with P C Thomas group, has little left to keep afloat in the Assembly polls.
But by a quirk of fate, P.J.Joseph, who was considered a lost soul in politics by many, may be the only survivor.
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