Kochi: Kerala is facing unprecedented political churning with two left parties of the government not compromising on the Rightist central government’s education policy PM-SHRI.
While the CPM is for implementing it, the CPI is opposed to the programme which it feels is a plan by the BJP government to communalise the state’s education sector under the garb of National Education Policy (NEP).
A meeting between the CPI State chief Benoy Viswam and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of CPM failed to yield any result.
The CPI Ministers will keep off from the next Cabinet meeting. Political analysts see this as a gimmick of the CPI to find an excuse to keep off from the tainted alliance in the fast approaching local bodies and Assembly elections.
With the credibility of the CPM at lowest ebb due to Sabarimala temple gold robbery under the governance of CPM controlled temple committee, any crucial decision by CPI on quitting the Left Democratic Front may not be surprising, they said.
The allegations against the Chief Minister’s daughter in the CMRL case among others has also hit the rating of CPM.
The LDF, mainly consisting of CPM and CPI, has 97 MLAs in the 140 assembly. CPM has 62 MLAs while there are 16 MLAs for CPI whose exit will result in the fall of the government.
This will badly affect the Communist movement in the state in the elections ahead.
With the BJP firing all its booster rockets to gain entry into power politics in the state, it will perhaps bring to an end to the decades old power sharing between the LDF and the Congress-led UDF.
Crisis in LDF
