The CPI(M) State secretariat meeting scheduled on Monday appears menaced by the unrelenting media circus over LDF convener E.P. Jayarajan’s Lok Sabha election day admission that he had met BJP Kerala in-charge Prakash Javadekar in the company of an alleged political fixer.
A day ahead of the polls, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president K. Sudhakaran spotlighted the ‘2023 meeting’ to sabotage the LDF’s refrain that Congress leaders in Kerala are in secret cahoots with the BJP and vulnerable to defection once the results are out. It did not help the LDF campaign that BJP’s firebrand leader Sobha Surendran endorsed Mr. Sudhakaran.
Mr. Jayarajan had claimed that Mr. Javadekar and T.G. Nandakumar, a self-styled political broker whose name his critics have often linked to questionable practices, had surprised him at his son’s house in Thiruvananthapuram in March 2023. He said he declined to discuss politics and ended the meeting in 10 minutes. Moreover, Mr. Jayarajan said he did not feel compelled to report the impromptu call to the CPI(M) leadership.
