P P Mukundan gets no invite for BJP mega meet

Thiruvananthapuram: Despite the RSS clearing the reentry of former BJP organising general secretary P. P. Mukundan, state BJP leadership is delaying it.
Mr Mukundan is disappointed that none has bothered to make a courtesy call when the BJP national executive and council are meeting in Kozhikode on the weekend. Central and state leaderships of BJP are jointly organising Smriti Sandhya of Jan Sangh leaders who attended the 1967 conclave here that elected Deendayal Upadhyaya as president.

Former state president K. Raman Pillai confirmed to DC that he got an invitation on Monday. “Yes, I would definitely be attending the reunion,” he said. State president Kummanam Rajasekharan told DC that he was inviting RSS leaders locked up in various jails during the Emergency too. Sources close to Mr Mukundan said he was lodged in Viyyur Central Jail for 21 months but was ignored.

“Unfortunately he had never got a call though he had gone to Mararji Bhavan on April 18 to a cold welcome with no leader of consequence turning up. He is yet to get an invite,” they said. But Mr Rajasekharan said he was on the list of invitees, and he would get the invite soon. “He will be brought back. But now our focus is on the event," he told DC. "When the time is appropriate we will discuss it." RSS state chief P. E. B. Menon told DC that they had long cleared his re-entry. “We had already told them we had no issues,” he said.