Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who had demonstrated a troublesome posture over the appointment row till not too long ago, appears to have lastly learnt a beneficial lesson from his predecessor Oommen Chandy. Political observers draw a parallel between the final leg of the earlier UDF authorities below Chandy and the present Pinarayi regime. There appears to be a placing similarity between each, as the continuing political tussle over regularisation of momentary workers within the closing lap of the federal government has struck a chord with the plenty.
It was a slew of last-minute drastic choices by the Chandy cabinet that had led to large-scale opposition in opposition to the then UDF authorities. “Had Oommen Chandy kept away from the last-minute controversial cabinet decisions, the UDF would have won at least 10 more seats. It seems the Pinarayi cabinet too was headed the same way,” identified a high bureaucrat.
Realising its political potential, Opposition UDF has been royally cashing in on the appointment row. Hostile remarks by senior CPM leaders together with secretary in-charge A Vijayaraghavan and a few ministers have offered extra political mileage to the UDF. Pinarayi has realised the UDF technique, albeit a bit late, and determined to placed on maintain the method of regularising momentary appointments.
Left observers really feel that the hostile response by CPM leaders aggravated the matter. The DYFI has been taking an nearly prison method on the problem. Being a Left authorities, they need to have taken a beneficial method in direction of the rank-holders, felt N M Pearson.
“The Left failed to adopt a humanitarian approach in the initial stage. With elections coming up, they seem to have realised this mistake at least now and are taking corrective steps. If Pinarayi succeeds in learning a lesson from Chandy’s past mistakes, that would definitely help the Left in the polls,” mentioned Pearson.It appears the Left hasn’t learnt classes from historical past, mentioned political observer J Prabhash.
“The Left was late in realising its mistake. Of course, they have now done something, which is better late than never. However by the time they realised it, the damage has already been done. Had they learnt lessons from the Chandy experience, they wouldn’t have adopted such a move,” mentioned Prabhash.
He additional identified that the entire scenario was aggravated by lack of response on the a part of Pinarayi and the sort of insensitive response by feeder organisations and ministers. “It’s exactly what the BJP has been doing at the Centre. There’s a striking parallel between the way BJP is dealing with agitation for various causes and how the Left handled the ongoing rank-holders’ strike,” he added.The final fallout of the appointment row can be evident solely as soon as the election outcomes are in.
