CPM scuttled Ramon Magsaysay Award for former Kerala well being minister KK Shailaja
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The CPM could have dedicated its second “historical blunder”, after turning down the Prime Ministership for veteran chief Jyoti Basu twenty years in the past. It has scuttled the prospect of former well being minister and senior CPM chief KK Shailaja profitable the celebrated Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2022.
It has been learnt that the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation had zeroed in on Shailaja for the sixty fourth Magsaysay award for her dedication and repair in the direction of guaranteeing an accessible public well being system and successfully main from the entrance to handle the Nipah and Covid-19 outbreaks within the state. Kerala had gained world recognition for its efficient dealing with of the Nipah outbreak and the Covid pandemic throughout her tenure.
Shailaja was prominently featured by numerous nationwide and worldwide media, which had highlighted how a small state on the southern tip of India has been ably preventing the pandemic in a scientific method. The public announcement of the award was speculated to be made by the tip of August this 12 months. The basis had apparently cross-checked with a couple of outstanding impartial individuals within the nation after she was nominated.
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Highly positioned sources within the nationwide capital advised TNIE that the muse first verified with Shailaja throughout a web based interplay and later intimated her of the award, in the direction of the tip of July. In its e-mail to the previous minister, notifying her of being chosen for the worldwide honour, the muse requested her to convey her willingness to just accept the award, in writing. The basis had additionally scheduled a slew of different award-related actions from September to November 2022.
It’s reliably learnt that Shailaja, being a central committee member of the CPM, consulted the social gathering management about the identical. The management checked out completely different features of the award, and determined towards her accepting the identical. The social gathering felt that as well being minister, Shailaja was merely doing her obligation entrusted to her by the social gathering. In addition, the state’s efforts in preventing the Nipah outbreak and the Covid pandemic have been a part of a collective motion and subsequently she needn’t settle for the award in her particular person capability.
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Following this, Shailaja wrote to the muse expressing her incapacity to just accept the award. It’s additionally learnt that the social gathering determined towards her receiving the award because it was within the title of Magsaysay who was identified for placing down Communist guerillas. The CPM felt that accepting such an award would backfire in the long term.
While CPM common secretary Sitaram Yechury was unavailable for remark, Shailaja refused to answer queries on the award. The Ramon Magsaysay Award, broadly thought to be the Nobel Prize of Asia, is a prestigious worldwide honour, named after the late Philippines president.
She would have been 1st Keralite lady to obtain Magsaysay
The award is given to people and organisations for selfless service to society in numerous fields.
Had the social gathering been in favour of Shailaja accepting the award, she would have been the fifth Keralite to get the honour after Verghese Kurien, M S Swaminathan, B G Verghese and T N Seshan. It would have been after 1 / 4 of a century that the award would have come to Kerala shores.
Also, she would have been the primary Keralite lady to obtain the identical, had the social gathering determined in any other case. It would even have been the primary time that the award would have been bagged by a serving politician. She would even have been a part of a legendary pantheon of leaders and social reformers like Vinoba Bhave, Mother Teresa and Jayaprakash Narayan, however the social gathering begged to vary. It would certainly have been a serious recognition for Kerala in addition to for each the state authorities beneath Pinarayi Vijayan and the CPM.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The CPM could have dedicated its second “historical blunder”, after turning down the Prime Ministership for veteran chief Jyoti Basu twenty years in the past. It has scuttled the prospect of former well being minister and senior CPM chief KK Shailaja profitable the celebrated Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2022.
It has been learnt that the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation had zeroed in on Shailaja for the sixty fourth Magsaysay award for her dedication and repair in the direction of guaranteeing an accessible public well being system and successfully main from the entrance to handle the Nipah and Covid-19 outbreaks within the state. Kerala had gained world recognition for its efficient dealing with of the Nipah outbreak and the Covid pandemic throughout her tenure.
Shailaja was prominently featured by numerous nationwide and worldwide media, which had highlighted how a small state on the southern tip of India has been ably preventing the pandemic in a scientific method. The public announcement of the award was speculated to be made by the tip of August this 12 months. The basis had apparently cross-checked with a couple of outstanding impartial individuals within the nation after she was nominated.
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Highly positioned sources within the nationwide capital advised TNIE that the muse first verified with Shailaja throughout a web based interplay and later intimated her of the award, in the direction of the tip of July. In its e-mail to the previous minister, notifying her of being chosen for the worldwide honour, the muse requested her to convey her willingness to just accept the award, in writing. The basis had additionally scheduled a slew of different award-related actions from September to November 2022.
It’s reliably learnt that Shailaja, being a central committee member of the CPM, consulted the social gathering management about the identical. The management checked out completely different features of the award, and determined towards her accepting the identical. The social gathering felt that as well being minister, Shailaja was merely doing her obligation entrusted to her by the social gathering. In addition, the state’s efforts in preventing the Nipah outbreak and the Covid pandemic have been a part of a collective motion and subsequently she needn’t settle for the award in her particular person capability.
ALSO READ | UK journal ‘Prospect’ names KK Shailaja as world’s ‘prime thinker’ for COVID-19
Following this, Shailaja wrote to the muse expressing her incapacity to just accept the award. It’s additionally learnt that the social gathering determined towards her receiving the award because it was within the title of Magsaysay who was identified for placing down Communist guerillas. The CPM felt that accepting such an award would backfire in the long term.
While CPM common secretary Sitaram Yechury was unavailable for remark, Shailaja refused to answer queries on the award. The Ramon Magsaysay Award, broadly thought to be the Nobel Prize of Asia, is a prestigious worldwide honour, named after the late Philippines president.
She would have been 1st Keralite lady to obtain Magsaysay
The award is given to people and organisations for selfless service to society in numerous fields.
Had the social gathering been in favour of Shailaja accepting the award, she would have been the fifth Keralite to get the honour after Verghese Kurien, M S Swaminathan, B G Verghese and T N Seshan. It would have been after 1 / 4 of a century that the award would have come to Kerala shores.
Also, she would have been the primary Keralite lady to obtain the identical, had the social gathering determined in any other case. It would even have been the primary time that the award would have been bagged by a serving politician. She would even have been a part of a legendary pantheon of leaders and social reformers like Vinoba Bhave, Mother Teresa and Jayaprakash Narayan, however the social gathering begged to vary. It would certainly have been a serious recognition for Kerala in addition to for each the state authorities beneath Pinarayi Vijayan and the CPM.
