The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] in Kerala has closed ranks against the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) alleged attempt to poach party cadres facing disciplinary action even as it sought to spotlight the Congress party as “the Sangh Parivar’s favourite hunting ground.”
For one, CPI(M) Kerala State secretary M.V. Govindan on March 8 (Friday) scotched rumours that the party’s former legislator from Devikulam in Idukki, S. Rajendran, was on the cusp of defecting to the BJP.
Mr. Govindan said the party’s policy was to hold “comrades with experience and loyalty” close to the organisation. “I spoke to Mr. Rajendran. He has promised to cooperate with the party. Disciplinary action is not sentencing. It’s a corrective process repeatedly adopted by the CPI(M) as part of the party’s inherent course correction and rectification process. The CPI(M) will bring Mr. Rajendran into the party fold,” he said.
