VS Achuthanandan lacking amongst CPM leaders’ portraits at state meet venue

By Express News Service

KOCHI: CPM has painted Kochi pink because it will get able to host the three-day state convention from March 1, however the portrait of VS Achuthanandan, 98, the one founding member of the occasion alive, is conspicuous by absence on the streets and the principle venue, although posters of all outstanding previous and current leaders are on show.

VS, as the previous chief minister is popularly recognized, is now bedridden. But ignoring the one surviving member from among the many 32 who walked out of the CPI National Council in 1964 to kind CPM is shocking, contemplating that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had moved on from his bitter struggle with Achuthanandan way back. Further, Achuthanandan was made the chairman of the Kerala Administrative Reforms Commission with a cabinet rank within the first Pinarayi authorities.

Portraits of different founding members together with E M S Namboodiripad, A Okay Gopalan, Harkishan Singh Surjeet and Jyoti Basu are prominently displayed throughout the streets and Marine Drive, the principle venue. Other occasion leaders like Prakash Karat, Sitaram Yechury, Brinda Karat, Pinarayi and Kodiyeri Balakrishnan additionally have gotten a satisfaction of place. 

‘Decency demands VS portrait to be placed at CPM conference venue’

Sources stated the occasion has chosen to place up portraits of solely its politburo members and departed leaders. “One shouldn’t read too much into it. It’s just that we have decided to put up portraits and banners only of our politburo members and leaders who passed away,” a supply stated.

The occasion’s determination to disregard Achuthanandan has stunned political observers. Political analyst J Prabhash stated the occasion might need determined to incorporate solely these leaders who’ve handed away or those that within the politburo in its posters, however Achuthanandan may have been an exception. “Anyway, he is incapacitated. Minimum ethics and decency demand VS portrait to be placed at the venue or the streets,” Prabhash stated.