THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An unholy nexus between the CPM and BJP is unfolding on the sly in the state and it is bound to communalise the political scenario at the cost of secular and progressive ethos and values, KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala said here on Tuesday. Both parties are duty-bound to declare their new political line in the open and enable the people to come to a conclusion, he demanded.The political line of the two parties, finetuned with the release of many RSS activists during the tenure of the last LDF govt and thereafter with mutual help extended during the local bodies polls and Assembly elections, is a challenge to the secular-minded people of the state, Ramesh Chennithala said.Ramesh maintained that the Congress was not for any protest if the CPM and BJP aimed at weaken the Congress, but was only keen to know whether they are willing to make the alliance public.“There is nothing new in the line of CPM since it was following a policy of appeasing both majority and minority communalism in turns, to achieve its political objectives. But the current strategy of both parties is more deep-rooted and with a clear-cut agenda and hence people have a right to know about it,’’he said,"People who believe in secularism will assess it,’’ he quipped.A high-level meet of the BJP held at Palakkad recently had adopted a tactical line to tie up with the CPM and target the Congress as the prime enemy, he said. It became clear with the zest shown by BJP leaders in their criticism against the judiciary in the backdrop of M V Jayarajan’s contempt of court case.“BJP leaders had spoken in a fashion which even Pinarayi Vijayan had not attempted,’’he pointed out. After the UDF govt came to power, there were many instances wherein Congress-led local bodies have been unseated through the tie-up between the BJP and the CPM, he charged.When pointed out that the Congress also had not entered into local-level adjustments with the BJP in the past, Ramesh strongly denied this. "We don’t need the support of the BJP,’’ he stressed.He came down heavily on the CPM for organising public protest and agitation against the judiciary, on a curious premise that it was intended to strengthen the judiciary.The KPCC will constitute a fact-finding team for an on-the-spot assessment on the farmers suicide issue in Wayanad. The KPCC chief will lead the delegation, which will visit the district shortly.“The party is of the view that immediate relief should be provided to needy farmers. The Centre had announced a Vidarbha model package for Wayanad. But it was not implemented in the past five years and the former state government had pleaded for its extension till 2012. Had it been implemented, the present situation could have been avoided,’’he felt.To a query, he said that no Congress-led govt had received the kind of support which it is deriving from the party now. The coordination committee of the govt and the party is an effective one. All policy matters are being discussed within the UDF, he replied when asked about charges that the government was succumbing to the pressure tactics of coalition partners like IUML.On the reported unrest among minor coalition partners in the UDF over sharing of chairmanship posts of corporations and boards , he said that the Congress had strived to satisfy all. "If at all there is any complaint, it is in the Congress,’’ he said.He reiterated that public men should exercise utmost restraint while speaking out and he will raise the matter to all concerned in the UDF. He said that chief whip P C George had told him that his reported remarks on many issues in recent times were only jokes."However, I will tell him that this is not proper when I meet him,’’ he said. In view of the delay in reorganisation of DCCs and because Kannur DCC chief P Ramakrishnan had resigned, senior vice- president P K Vijayaraghavan has been given temporary charge, the KPCC chief said.
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