BJP split over axing young netas

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: BJP state president Kummanam Rajasekharan defended the central leadership’s directive to axe its two young leaders for "indiscipline and anti-party stand." Its state secretary V. V. Rajesh and Yuvamorcha state general secretary Praful Krishna were stripped of their organisational duties on Wednesday, a week after the IB started tracing leaders' phone calls following the medical college scam. Both belong to the rival camp of former state president V. Muraleedharan, which terms the action as unilateral.

The internal enquiry commission led by vice-president K. P. Sreesan and secretary A. K. Nazeer along with Mr Rajasekharan and two RSS-nominated general secretaries, M. Ganesh and R. Subhash, have gone scot free while they only knew its findings. Muraleedharan camp feels they made Mr Rajesh a scapegoat. A top BJP leader told DC that more heads would roll eventually as the IB’s investigation report is with president Amit Shah. “The state leaders are in the dark about the nature of the inquiry. We are aware that it is an IB team that probed the scam. They have collected all call details of BJP leaders during a week before and after the controversy,” he said.

The grapevine is that more leaders would be facing the music soon.  The only thing is that the state leaders do not know when and what would be the outcome. In a Facebook post, Mr Rajasekharan warned of action against all the leaders who bring shame to the party. His post ends with the note that whoever tries to create a rift in the party highlighting corruption and malpractices will be severely dealt with.