No to Magsaysay Award for KK Shailaja: Sitaram Yechury defends occasion stand
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NEW DELHI: On the difficulty of CPI (M) scuttling the prospect of former Kerala well being minister KK Shailaja successful the celebrated Ramon Magsaysay Award, occasion common secretary Sitaram Yechury defended their determination saying that the award is within the title of Ramon Magsaysay who has a historical past of alleged brutal oppression of Communists within the Philippines.
Yechuri, who met reporters in New Delhi, denied the nice work performed by Shailaja in tackling Covid-19 by stating, “The award was being given for the manner in which the public health issues have been managed in Kerala. This is a collective effort of the LDF government and the Health Department in Kerala.”
He mentioned the Magsaysay Award has not been given to any energetic politician up to now and the Central Committee is the very best decision-making physique of the occasion.
“So, for all these factors together, she politely refused it saying that she will be the first politician to get it,” Yechury mentioned.
Meanwhile, Shailaja mentioned in Thiruvananthapuram, “I thanked them and politely refused the award saying I was not interested in receiving it in an individual capacity.”
Left leaders who spoke on the difficulty have claimed that Magsaysay was a staunch anti-Communist who oversaw the defeat of Communists (Hukbalahap was a Communist guerrilla motion fashioned by the farmers of Central Luzon) within the Philippines within the Fifties.
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) in 1957 established the Ramon Magsaysay Awards to honour the late President of the Philippines, who died in a airplane crash in March 1957.
The awards got for contributions made by residents of the Philippines and different Asian international locations in authorities service, public service, worldwide understanding, journalism and literature, and neighborhood management.
Indians together with filmmaker Satyajit Ray and cartoonist R Ok Laxman, former election commissioner T N Sheshan, singer M S Subbulakshmi, scientist M S Swaminathan, former Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal are among the many previous awardees.
As reported by The New Indian Express, “Had the party been in favour of Shailaja accepting the award, she would have been the fifth Keralite to get the honour after Verghese Kurien, M S Swaminathan, B G Verghese and T N Seshan. It would have been after a quarter of a century that the award would have come to Kerala shores.”
Also, she would have been the primary Keralite lady to obtain the identical, had the occasion determined in any other case. It would even have been the primary time that the award would have been bagged by a serving politician. She would even have been a part of a legendary pantheon of leaders and social reformers like Vinoba Bhave, Mother Teresa and Jayaprakash Narayan, however the occasion begged to vary. It would certainly have been a serious recognition for Kerala in addition to for each the state authorities underneath Pinarayi Vijayan and the CPM.
(With inputs from Express News Service and PTI)
NEW DELHI: On the difficulty of CPI (M) scuttling the prospect of former Kerala well being minister KK Shailaja successful the celebrated Ramon Magsaysay Award, occasion common secretary Sitaram Yechury defended their determination saying that the award is within the title of Ramon Magsaysay who has a historical past of alleged brutal oppression of Communists within the Philippines.
Yechuri, who met reporters in New Delhi, denied the nice work performed by Shailaja in tackling Covid-19 by stating, “The award was being given for the manner in which the public health issues have been managed in Kerala. This is a collective effort of the LDF government and the Health Department in Kerala.”
He mentioned the Magsaysay Award has not been given to any energetic politician up to now and the Central Committee is the very best decision-making physique of the occasion.
“So, for all these factors together, she politely refused it saying that she will be the first politician to get it,” Yechury mentioned.
Meanwhile, Shailaja mentioned in Thiruvananthapuram, “I thanked them and politely refused the award saying I was not interested in receiving it in an individual capacity.”
Left leaders who spoke on the difficulty have claimed that Magsaysay was a staunch anti-Communist who oversaw the defeat of Communists (Hukbalahap was a Communist guerrilla motion fashioned by the farmers of Central Luzon) within the Philippines within the Fifties.
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) in 1957 established the Ramon Magsaysay Awards to honour the late President of the Philippines, who died in a airplane crash in March 1957.
The awards got for contributions made by residents of the Philippines and different Asian international locations in authorities service, public service, worldwide understanding, journalism and literature, and neighborhood management.
Indians together with filmmaker Satyajit Ray and cartoonist R Ok Laxman, former election commissioner T N Sheshan, singer M S Subbulakshmi, scientist M S Swaminathan, former Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal are among the many previous awardees.
As reported by The New Indian Express, “Had the party been in favour of Shailaja accepting the award, she would have been the fifth Keralite to get the honour after Verghese Kurien, M S Swaminathan, B G Verghese and T N Seshan. It would have been after a quarter of a century that the award would have come to Kerala shores.”
Also, she would have been the primary Keralite lady to obtain the identical, had the occasion determined in any other case. It would even have been the primary time that the award would have been bagged by a serving politician. She would even have been a part of a legendary pantheon of leaders and social reformers like Vinoba Bhave, Mother Teresa and Jayaprakash Narayan, however the occasion begged to vary. It would certainly have been a serious recognition for Kerala in addition to for each the state authorities underneath Pinarayi Vijayan and the CPM.
(With inputs from Express News Service and PTI)
