Click to play videoTrivandrum: The CPM cadre in Kerala is seeing red over state governor RS Gavai's decision to sanction prosecution of party state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan in the SNC Lavlin case.
Red flags laid siege as Raj Bhavan confirmed that there has been a death threat to governor Gavai.
Trivandrum district secretary of CPM, Kadakampalli Surendran, said, “We strongly protest against this decision taken by the governor to satisfy the Congress party and malign one of our greatest leaders”.
The CPM politburo in Delhi denounced the Governor's decision to overturn the advice of the Council of Ministers as unfortunate.
State committee said he will continue in his position as neither does he hold any constitutional post nor is he an elected member.
“There is no doubt that comrade Pinnarayi Vijayan will continue as the party secretary,” said Kerala’s Education Minister, MA Baby.
But Vijayan’s bete noire chief minister VS Achuthanandan, who had reluctantly agreed to his Cabinet’s decision to not give the go ahead for prosecuting Vijayan, will now go for the kill at the party Central Committee meeting next month.
“Everything will be discussed in the state committee,” he said.
For the party which calls for probity in public life, this is a matter of shame.
Pinarayi Vijayan had been suspended from the politburo on a far less serious charge of abetting factionalism.
He'll continue to adorn the CPM's highest decision making body even as he is interrogated by CBI sleuths.
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