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‘CPI(M) repeating its mistakes’

Staff Reporter

KASARAGOD: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) is repeating its mistakes by voting with the BJP against the confidence motion in the Lok Sabha and ousting Speaker Somnath Chatterjee from the party for not following that line, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Ramesh Chennithala said here on Wednesday.

He was speaking after inaugurating the Civil Service and Education Sector Protection March of the State Employees and Teachers’ Organisations (SETO). The march, led by SETO chairman Kottathala Mohan, will end at Thiruvananthapuram on September 3.

Mr. Chennithala said the CPI(M) had earlier cooperated with the Jan Morcha of the former Prime Minister V.P. Singh and the BJP to keep Rajiv Gandhi out of power and that move resulted in the BJP getting legitimacy in national politics. He said the present action of the CPI(M) had resulted in support to the BJP’s wish to oust the secular government and form a government with L.K. Advani as Prime Minister. But the wish of CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat that he could pull down the government had come to naught.

The MPs from Left parties from Kerala who voted along with the BJP had betrayed the people of the State.

Commenting on the situation in the State, Mr. Chennithala said it was ripe for another liberation struggle, but the Congress had no plans to start an agitation. The government would fall without it.

He did not think that the liberation struggle of 1958 was wrong. Education Minister M.A. Baby had created an unprecedented insecurity in the education sector and the Chief Minister should oust him from the Cabinet.

M.K. Ragahavan and Kodoth Govindan Nair, KPCC general secretaries, and District Congress Committee president K. Veluthambu was present.

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