Kochi, 15 December(HS): The Left Democratic Front led by the CPI(M) is faced with ‘Revolt in the Camp’ as the CPI is upset and annoyed over the big brother attitude of the CPI(M). The reaction by Binoy Viswam, the CPI State Secretary who hates the CPI(M), is proof of the CPI’s eagerness to join the Congress-led front. The CPI and the Congress are not strangers as both parties had worked together from 1976 to 1980 in the same front.

“Lessons will be learned from the verdict of the Local Self-Government Institution elections. We will continue to uphold leftist ideals and will examine how the public perceives them,” Viswam told reporters.

The CPI, especially Viswam, brought out the discrepancies and impropriety in the LDF by forcing school education minister R Sivankutty to withdraw the MoU signed with the Center for implementing the PM-SRI (Pradhan Mantri School for Rising India).

Viswam indoctrinated the CPI leaders that the PM-SRI school programme has been launched to saffronize the school education in the country. Since the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Education Minister Sivankutty paid scant regards to him, Viswam took the first available flight to New Delhi and told his national secretary D Raja and his wife Annie Raja about the consequences of setting up PM-SRI schools, Raja who skipped his lunch and dashed to the CPI(M) office convinced his counterpart M A Baby about the same.

Baby, who is afraid of Vijayan, opted to stay in New Delhi but managed to get Sivankutty to submit pleas to the centre requesting the cancellation of the PM-SRI project in the State. Though the official version from the Kerala Government is that the MoU has been kept in abeyance, the project has been dumped into the cupboard. “The Centre can pay the amount due under the scheme but we are not in a position to implement the same without the green signal from the CPI,” a CPI(M) leader said.

The next four months are going to be highly crucial for Pinarayi Vijayan because the Election Commission of India is getting ready to announce the poll schedule for the States of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Bengal, Assam and the Union Territory of Puducherry by the first week of March. If Vijayan succeeds in recovering from the shock defeat and wins the polls, he will go down in history as a Phenix Bird which rose from its ashes. If not, the octogenarian strong man would walk towards sunset at Pinarayi village sans any cavalcade of limousines and armed guards.

Hindusthan Samachar / Manohar Yadavatti