Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: For the UDF, Sabarimala is a trump card within the meeting elections. Quite not like the native physique elections the place it was hardly a difficulty. The Sabarimala difficulty had benefited the UDF essentially the most within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. And now they’re gearing as much as money in on the state of affairs ensuing from CPM common secretary Sitaram Yechury’s public rebuttal of the remorse expressed by Devaswom Minister Kadakampally Surendran over the 2018 incidents at Sabarimala.
Yechury’s assertion on Wednesday that the CPM believes in equality, and that the LDF authorities had no different possibility however to implement the Supreme Court verdict, has caught the state CPM management unaware. Much to the pleasure of the UDF.
With the NSS management too popping out in opposition to the LDF authorities, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has been pressured to say that the Sabarimala difficulty must be mentioned solely when the Supreme Court takes up the case once more. In a significant embarrassment to the LDF, NSS common secretary G Sukumaran Nair claimed that they’re fooling believers.
With the Congress lagging behind in campaigning due to delayed candidate announcement and inner squabbles, Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala has challenged the Chief Minister to alter the affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court relating to younger ladies’s entry to Sabarimala. The Congress chief reiterated the Opposition’s stand to herald laws on the Sabarimala difficulty inside 100 days of the UDF authorities coming to energy.
UDF convener M M Hassan informed TNIE that the CPM’s double requirements on the problem has been uncovered.“Kadakampally expressed regret over the Sabarimala issue to garner votes by hoodwinking believers. If the CPM leadership has an iota of honesty, they should be ready to change their affidavit before the Supreme Court and come out with a legislation,” Hassan stated. UDF’s campaigning technique is just not merely centered on highlighting the ineptitude of the ruling entrance in coping with the Sabarimala difficulty.
Their essential goal is to show the LDF’s failure in governance and a slew of corruption allegations. Senior Congress chief Okay C Joseph stated the LDF authorities has not understood what led to their debacle within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.“They don’t have a policy on the Sabarimala issue and continue to cheat the people. Instead of changing their affidavit, the state and central CPM leaderships are coming up with different stands which shows a lack of proper deliberation within the party,” Joseph stated.
