Congress chief G Rathikumar joins CPM, Pinarayi says wholesome pattern

Express News Service

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Close on the heels of KP Anilkumar, Congress former state basic secretary G Rathikumar stop the occasion and joined the CPM on Wednesday. CM Pinarayi Vijayan stated disgruntled Congress leaders becoming a member of CPM is a wholesome pattern.

Rathikumar, who had begun his political profession with the KSU, slammed AICC basic secretary Okay C Venugopal, state chief Okay Sudhakaran and dealing president Kodikunnil Suresh for destroying the occasion. CPM politburo member Kodiyeri Balakrishnan welcomed Rathikumar at AKG Centre. He was accompanied by CPM Kollam district secretary S Sudevan, who had been instrumental in initiating talks with Rathikumar.

His resignation from the occasion occurred a couple of hours after Opposition Leader V D Satheesan’s assertion that no one is indispensable to the occasion. “Even if I leave tomorrow, nothing will happen to the party. When legendary leader K Karunakaran left the Congress, nothing happened and we could revive the party,” stated Satheesan.

Rathikumar’s resignation, eighth from the occasion up to now six months, has fuelled hypothesis that extra second-rung leaders might be part of the CPM.  The Congress state management’s determination on Wednesday to not have leaders who had been in a celebration submit for 5 years in district or state committees has left a number of of them disgruntled.

CPM not persuading anybody to stop Congress: Kodiyeri

Kodiyeri stated the door of the CPM is just not open to all who stop Congress. “We’ll decide on a case-by case-basis by analysing the profile and work of the leader,” Kodiyeri informed reporters right here. He denied rumours that the CPM is attempting to poach leaders from Congress.

“They are quitting on their own. We are not persuading anyone to quit,” stated Kodiyeri, including that as a political occasion, the CPM is working in direction of broadening its mass base. Reacting to the pattern, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan stated the current developments might be seen as a pure final result because the Congress is disintegrating. “When leaders had left Congress up to now, they deliberate to hitch BJP. At that point, the management tried and dissuaded a few of them.

Those within the Congress know effectively that the occasion is just not able to taking up BJP which is implementing anti-people insurance policies. They know that the Left is taking a robust and regular stand towards BJP. That is why leaders there now cooperate with us. This is a wholesome pattern,” Pinarayi informed at a press convention right here. On Wednesday, senior leaders of the state Congress management had been huddled at Indira Bhavan to finalise the rules meant for the second stage of the occasion revamping, which might see new committees on the district and state ranges.

Replacing jumbo committees, 51-member panels on the district and state stage will come into existence. Congress chief Sooranad Rajasekharan informed TNIE that defection of leaders to CPM has triggered a debate among the many grassroots-level employees of the occasion. Former chief minister Oommen Chandy refused to react on the problem. But, his loyalist MP Benny Behanan, who had not favoured the brand new management, prolonged a phrase of warning to them.”I don’t help these leaders who’ve left the Congress and joined the CPM. But the management ought to take it as a chance to introspect why these leaders are leaving the Congress,” stated Behanan.