It is a known fact these days that the CPI (M) in Kerala has constituted a group of tech savvy young comrades who are constantly on the look out of “miscreants” who in the blogosphere and in the web world are mongering “rumours” against the party and party leaders in a bid to “destroy” the party. (These people are also a part of the “Media Syndicate”, is what their party secretary is saying) So while I am writing this piece, it is only natural that I am a bit scared about getting caught for the same “crime.” But accumulating all courage that I could gather, I am going to ‘call a spade a spade.’ So last week the state secretary of CPI (M) started his “Nava Kerala March” with a “great” theme, ‘Safe India, Prosperous Kerala.’
One can only wonder how a march in Kerala is going to have any effect on the security of India as the CPI (M) has no realistic chances of coming to power at the centre. Even if they come to power taking the help of all smaller political parties in the country, there is no guarantee that they can stay on with their government for more than a year. So it is rather foolish to have a theme of “Safe India” in this Nava Kerala March. If about prosperous Kerala, that is what the CPI (M) leaders (and for that matter leaders of all political parties in the state) have been “striving” hard for quite a long time. And who else is more capable and suitable for taking forward such a march than the CPI (M) state secretary Mr. Pinarayi Vijayan.
Day by day Pinarayi is improving as a leader and that is not a surprise at all. He is the father of a son who despite getting very low marks in SSLC and graduation improved considerably to get even a scholarship to study MBA at Birmingham University. If son is so talented, then can father be far behind? Rumour mongering is at work against him too is what the party is saying. Otherwise how can anyone dare to point an accusing finger against the so called quintessential leader of the party? The SNC Lavelin corruption is a concocted case is what Pinarayi and his party has been saying for quite a long time. If that is the case then why are the party and its leaders getting so much disgusted whenever someone talks about that issue. If it is a fictitious case they can very well win the case when it come in the court. Instead the party is hell bent on blaming the UPA government at the centre and the CBI for including Pinarayi’s name in the charge sheet. The intolerance of the party leaders towards the accusation in the Lavelin case is so big that some have started behaving as insane. EP Jayarajan in a speech that he made some days back at a meeting of Nava Kerala March was calling “poda pulle CBI.” And if you don’t know who this EP Jayarajan, then he is the same MLA who advised Malayalis to make liquor a part of our diet. He is a “respected” leader of CPI (M) and then do you need another example to understand the rot that the party is facing these days? He is one politician from whom we should expect a prosperous Kerala, how silly.
If there is one die-hard supporter of Pinarayi, who starts his every day with a prayer taking the name of Pinarayi, then it is our Minister, G. Sudhakaran. Known for his preposterous loquacity, Sudhakaran is person whose loquacity borders insanity. He always speaks with unmatched stupidity, unparalleled idiocy and incomparable futility. He has been hailed as the voice of the common people by some of his party men. But the truth is that his eloquent nonsense is a shame for the state of Kerala and each time one hears his rubbish rhetoric one can’t help but curse his/her ill fate of being in the state where he is a Minister. As if this is not enough he was heard last week saying that he will cut off anyone’s hands who dares to burn the effigy of Pinarayi Vijayan. Mr. Minister seems to be oblivious about the facts that burning effigy is a legal form of protest and anyone who dares to challenge the expression of such protests by issuing threats is liable to be prosecuted. There had been a lot of uneducated and stupid politicians who bark about all sorts of nonsense things in the states like Bihar and UP and we Malayalis always boasted that we don’t have such fools as Ministers or politicians. But I think now we don’t have that privilege to boast about our Ministers and politicians and the credit for this change goes to the inimitable Sudhakaran. Now he is another politician from whom we should expect a prosperous Kerala.
Any talk about CPI (M) ministers and you forget about the great economist Thomas Isaac, is a cardinal sin. They say that all Malayalis should thank the Almighty for giving us this talented economist as the Finance Minister. He has all economics knowledge of this world to find flaws in the economic policies of the central government, but knows nothing to bring development to the state. He was agitated on finding that the central government was not ready to reduce the price of petrol and diesel even after reduction in the international crude oil price, but when the central government did reduce the price, he was quick to raise the state tax on fuel there by increasing the price of petrol and diesel. May be that is better economics, that we mere mortals won’t understand. He being the Finance Minister is another person from whom we have to expect a prosperous Kerala.
When the Nava Kerala March reach Thiruvananthapuram a lot of people would believe that Kerala would be more prosperous and India would be safer than before. Needless to say that those people are diehard CPI (M) supporters who have staunch belief in their leaders and their ability to make changes to their lives. But for all those people who still haven’t lost their ability to think, this march is a futile exercise meant only to enhance the political career of a person. March or no march, the lives of the people of this state is going to remain this pathetic. May be as one of my CPI (M) friends had told, if we can’t stand this government anymore, we should just get out of this state and live at some other place. But everywhere politicians are the same, whatever may be the name of their party. (see article on why
political parties are useless) We just have to get used to living in this part of the world where this very weird form of democracy is in practice.
But for the time being I would hope that the tech-savvy red volunteers of the party would not grab me and assault me for writing this piece. My readers would also pray for me, I hope. Anyways for the sake of assuaging their anger let me add this and try to fool them – Pinarayi Ki Jai, Nava Kerala March Ki Jai.
