Vellappally Natesan upset as party flops
The BDJS couldn't gain from the crisis faced by the CPM nationally at present.
ALAPPUZHA: SNDP Yogam leader Vellappally Natesan has nothing much to cheer about the outcome of the Assembly elections with none of the BDJS candidates making it. The stark question facing him is whether the BDJS floated by him will go the Socialist Republican Party way launched by the Yogam in the 70s.
Though Mr Natesan fears a backlash from the LDF regime, he plans to go ahead with the party to fight for social justice along with NDA. “They had tortured me in the past as well. So, I don’t care what they want to do to me now,” Mr Natesan told Deccan Chronicle on Thursday.
He said his party candidates had a good vote share. But it is doubtful whether it can make inroads into the traditional Left votes. Two caste- based political outfits-- National Democratic Party (NDP) of Nair Service Society and SNDP Yogam’s SRP—formed in the 70s had become politically irrelevant after a decade.
They had tried their luck in the 1980, 82 and 87 elections. In 1980, the NDP ended up with three seats while SRP got none. In 1982, the NDP won four and the SRP two. In 1987, the NDP got one and the SRP nil. The BDJS couldn't gain from the crisis faced by the CPM nationally at present. Its future is also uncertain.