With the Kerala government digging in its heels and announcing its intention to forge ahead with the SilverLine project, the CPI State leadership has come under pressure to adopt a cautious stand on the contentious issue.
On Monday, a group of the party’s fellow travellers whose fathers were prominent CPI leaders wrote a letter to the party State secretary Kanam Rajendran expressing anguish over the manner in which the CPI had offered support to the project without detailed discussions.
The letter, signed by the wards of 15 former CPI leaders, said the party had no obligation to back the CPI(M) which had “shown disregard for public opinion” while going ahead with the project that had the potential to impact the lives of ordinary people.
