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Ties with DIC(K) exposes CPI(M) fear of Assembly polls: MVR

Staff Reporter

He says Karunakaran cannot stay in the Left Democratic Front for long

SPEAKING OUT: Minister for Cooperation M.V. Raghavan inaugurating the State conference of the Kerala Socialist Youth Federation in Kannur on Sunday.

KANNUR: Minister for Co-operation and Communist Marxist Party (CMP) general secretary M.V. Raghavan has said that Communist Party of India (Marxist) is favouring an alliance with the Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran) because of its apprehension about the outcome of the next Assembly elections.

Inaugurating the State conference of the Kerala Socialist Youth Federation (KSYF) here on Sunday, Mr. Raghavan said that DIC(K) leader K. Karunakaran should say whether he would allow his party to have only seat adjustments with the Left Democratic Front (LDF) as some LDF constituents, including the Communist Party of India (CPI), was strongly opposed to the idea of bringing in the DIC(K) in the front.

CPI(M) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, on his part, should say whether DIC(K) would ever be included in the LDF, Mr. Raghavan said.

Stating that Mr. Karunakaran could not stay in the LDF for long, Mr. Raghavan said that the senior leader should follow either Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar who had formed a party that was now supporting the Congress or senior Congress leader and Union Human Resource Minister Arjun Singh who had come back to the Congress after a split.

He said that LDF was getting weak and the mass base of the CPI(M) was also facing erosion.

Mr. Raghavan said that it was welcome that the CPI(M) had come round to accepting the fact that communalism of the BJP and the RSS was the greatest threat to the country and that the secular forces, including the Congress, should join hands in the fight against communalism.

The Congress had also abandoned its earlier position against forming a coalition Government in the Centre, Mr. Raghavan said.

Stating that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government had failed to come up to the expectation in the area of addressing people's issues, Mr. Raghavan said that India's vote against Iran in the International Atomic Energy Agency had also exposed the UPA Government's failure to stand up to the U.S. imperialism.

He also lamented that no socialist country, including China, had come out to oppose the U.S. attack on Iraq.

China should have been in the forefront of the resistance to the U.S. aggression, he said adding that the anti-Communist dictator Saddam Hussein had now turned out to be the symbol of the anti-U.S. resistance instead. He also urged the youth to face the challenge posed by U.S. imperialism.

Mr. Raghavan said that the United Democratic Front (UDF) had initiated various measures for the development of the State. The CPI(M) was now talking about development in a bid to give a new face to the party, he said.

KSYF State president P. Vijayakumar presided. The CMP leaders C.P. John, Patyam Rajan, M.K. Kannan, C.P. Moosankutty and P. Balan were among those present at the function.

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