Thiruvananathapuram: While the battle in the Kerala CPI(M) has reached a flashpoint, Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan finds himself beleaguered instead of his rival Pinarayi Vijayan who is facing corruption charges in the Lavalin scam. Unlike popular perception, the existential crisis is now more severe for Achuthanandan, who is the only living Communist from Kerala who was among those walked out of the national council of the CPI in 1964 to float the CPI(M).
His stand for Communist values and fight against corruption has this time pitch-forked Achuthanandan into a battle quite different from the previous ones fought against Pinarayi. The sentiments of the Communist gallery are with Achuthanandan, but the aged gladiator miserably misses a team to take on his “tainted rival”.
The veteran of many a fight has no second rung leaders to stand up for his cause as the entire party leadership has been aligned with Pinarayi. Achuthanandan has only the party mass, local level leaders, and that great history of classical Communism to fall back on at this critical juncture.
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