Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's "personal invitation" to Union Home Minister Amit Shah to attend the Nehru Trophy Boat Race as Chief Guest on September 4 has rankled the Congress and sparked a new political controversy.
Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan said political expediency underscored the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] Kerala unit's pronounced slant towards the central leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The State CPI(M)'s "cosying up" to the Sangh Parivar was prima facie in variance with the stated position of the party's national leadership. Mr. Satheesan's tirade against the CPI(M) in Kerala came on Sunday's eve of the party's "extraordinary" leadership meeting at the AKG Centre here.
