KK Shailaja’s ouster from the Kerala cabinet exhibits Vijayan’s Covid mannequin is only a PR gimmick
After the Kerala healthcare mannequin stood uncovered on a number of events in combating the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the state’s newly elected LDF authorities led by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan dropped well being minister KK Shailaja from the cabinet. Hailed by the liberal media because the pioneer in tackling the menace of the virus when it first emerged in 2020, Shailaja’s PR gimmick took an enormous dive in 2021 as Kerala continued to falter in containing the circumstances.While media experiences have advised that Vijayan wished a contemporary cabinet in place for his new tenure — the fanboys of the left authorities have questioned the choice. From calling it a patriarchal transfer to a Stalinist purge, Vijayan has confronted some flak for dropping Shailaja.Typical Stalinist purge!— Rohini Singh (@rohini_sgh) May 18, 2021The sexism is clear. Please do not attempt to defend it. Someone nearly as good as Shailaja Teacher not making it’s itself proof of ego and sexism. There is a pandemic occurring and other people actually voted to maintain her in. You cannot simply ignore that.— Arya (@RantingDosa) May 18, 2021Can anybody say they didn’t count on it? Women are nice when they’re equipment & shadows. The minute they present the slightest signal of overshadowing, they’re proven the door. What gymnastics are comrades going to carry out to clarify why Shailaja is not in? Unless it was her selection— meena kandasamy || stand with #palestine 🇵🇸 (@meenakandasamy) May 18, 2021However, the Kerala CM seems to know that Shailaja has been an enormous failure after reaping some preliminary success. It is crucial to notice that when the virus first emerged in Kerala and began spreading in states like Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh – the southern state was the least hit by it.Based on such a small pattern dimension, Shailaja and the left authorities began thumping their chest and claimed victory over the virus. Moreover, the so-called failed ‘Kerala model of healthcare’ was put ahead and propagated by the leftists and their supporters within the media, on a battle footing.Such was Shailaja’s façade of hiding the fact that in June 2020, the United Nations invited her as a panellist on the UN Public Service Day. UK’s Prospect Magazine named her because the ‘top thinker’ of the COVID-19 age whereas the Guardian too printed an extended function calling her ‘the Coronavirus slayer’.However, the present grim statistics actually don’t endorse such fancy tags on the top of Shailaja as Kerala’s well being equipment continues to stretch skinny.According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the state is repeatedly reporting circumstances over 25,00 each day with the utmost variety of new circumstances reported in a single day noticed on May 12 when the tally crossed over 43,000 circumstances. Yesterday Kerala reported 31,337 contemporary COVID-19 circumstances, pushing the caseload to 21,70,651. Meanwhile, the dying toll rose to six,612 as 97 extra individuals succumbed to the lethal virusOwning to the excessive positivity price, the Vijayan authorities has determined to increase the current full lockdown in Kerala until May twenty third. Triple lockdown will even be imposed in Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam, Thrissur, and Malappuram, the place the check positivity price is excessive.The Kerala authorities beneath Pinarayi Vijayan as CM shall be sworn in on May 20. A complete of 21 ministers will take oath on the day. The omission of Shailaja appears to have taken some sheen away from Vijayan’s coronation however in the long term, if Kerala needs to resurrect its picture of a mannequin healthcare state, her purge seems to be like the primary admirable step in the proper path. In nutshell, her ouster has proved that the Kerala mannequin was a sham all alongside.
