Buzz over CPM leaders turning up for Ex-SFI leader’s funeral

KOZHIKODE: “What is wrong with the CPM?  Is  it humbled by the Aruvikkara defeat or is it part of a meticulous strategy?”  These were the questions doing the rounds at the Kozhikode Town Hall on Thursday where CPM leaders made a beeline to pay  their last respects to K.S. Bimal, the former national leader of SFI,  who died of cancer. Many term it as the Aruvikkara impact rather than the repentance of the CPM leadership.   

Bimal was the key leader among those who left the party after the murder of T.P. Chandrasekharan.  Even CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, who was in the town for another programme, paid respects to him  despite the protest from RMP workers.

However K.K. Rema, wife of the late  Chandrasekharan, told Deccan Chronicle that the CPM had at last realized that it  cannot sustain itself without showing a human face or at least a pseudo-humanitarian face.  “After Aruvikkara they are much worried and want to show that they are humane like others,”  she added.    

CPM leader M.B. Rajesh MP also paid last respects to Bimal at the Kozhikode Town Hall. Meanwhile at Edachery Town Hall, DYFI leaders P.K. Biju and T.V. Rajesh faced protests from RMP comrades. At last it was the intervention of CPI MLA E.K. Vijayan that facilitated the entry of CPM leaders to the Town Hall who left the spot soon.

When T.P. Chandrasekharan was killed on May 4, 2012, apart from A. Pradeep Kumar MLA no other leaders had turned up to pay respects to the rebel comrade.