CP(M) State secretary M.V. Govindan pushed back against the Opposition’s insinuation that a personality cult revolving around Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan pervaded the government and the party.
Mr. Govindan accused the right-wing corporate media of furthering such a lie to steer public opinion, including that of literary figures, against the government.
However, he said, the propagandists made a mistake by cherry-picking the words of Jnanpith laureate M.T. Vasudevan Nair’s speech against strongmen rule, centralisation of authority and personality cults at the recent Kerala Literary Festival in Kozhikode. It helped the party’s enemies that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was sharing the dais with Mr. Nair.
