UDF doors open for CPI, says Mullappally Ramachandran
The KPCC president was speaking at a leadership camp of the party organised by the DCC in Malappuram.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: KPCC president Mullappally Ramachandran on Saturday said the CPI should snap ties with the ruling LDF and work with the UDF.
Mr Ramachandran reminded that Congress was once in alliance with the CPI referring to the government led by C.Achutha Menon. "There was a time when the Congress and CPI governed the state together. I am making the suggestion for closer ties keeping in mind those days," he said.
The KPCC president was speaking at a leadership camp of the party organised by the DCC in Malappuram.
Mr Ramachandran said there are a number of good leaders in the CPI. They will always have the opportunity to serve the people from the UDF platform.
A sizeable section of right thinking people in the Left camp are having serious apprehensions about the decadence of CPM as a political party.
His statement gains significance as it comes close on the heels of serious differences between CPI and CPM over the lathicharge in Ernakulam in which district secretary P.Raju and Muvattupuzha MLA Eldo Abraham sustained injuries.
A section of CPI leaders and workers are up in arms against the police haighhandedness and want the chief to rein in the rogue cops.
It may be recalled that Congress leader Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan had extended a similar invitation to the CPI in 2017. He reminded the CPI of the "golden era" in the state when the two parties were in the same front. Many in the Congress feel that it was not late to think about a similar coalition in future.
However, CPI leaders said that the Congress president's statement was meaningless. The CPI is number two in the ruling LDF and has close ties with all coalition partners.