The SFI chaps and the DYFI blokes were having a very bad and boring time for quite some time, in fact for the last three years. And it is always so when the LDF is ruling the state of Kerala, as there will be no government actions to become offended about, no government policy to feel hurt about or no government initiative to be angry upon. Their government, their policies and hence a life without boisterous onslaughts on public property or hostile slogans on the “irresponsible” government; certainly a boring and dull life for the young comrades. But suddenly everything changed; the Governor gave CBI the approval to prosecute Pinarayi Vijayan, their greatest leader, on the SNC Lavalin Case. And this was a sort of opportunity that they were looking for. Cometh the hour, cometh the brave comrades.
One of the questions that is in the mind of us Malayalees is that if Pinarayi is really innocent, why are the party and himself so much keen on avoiding going to the court. Even if we accept that this case is a politically motivated one where the Congress Government in the centre used the CBI to come up with such a case, is it not the responsibility of the CPI (M) to prove such a conspiracy? And there are some good reasons for us to believe that the Congress government at the centre has used its leverage on the CBI for putting up cases against their political opponents. But this is not something new and is a clear truth of our system. Whoever comes to government will use governmental machineries against their rivals.
The CPI (M) now argues that the Governor has no right to decline the opinion of the cabinet ministers and therefore his decision to approve prosecution against Pinarayi is unconstitutional. This is because the cabinet ministers, after getting advice from the Advocate General, gave their suggestion to the Governor that there is no prima facie case against Pinarayi and hence there is no need to prosecute him. One just can’t miss the irony here. A cabinet headed by CPI (M) ministers deciding whether to prosecute their own party secretary or not. This is as if the accused himself making judgement whether he is the culprit or not. Can we expect any other suggestion than the one that was given by the cabinet ministers? And they say that they made the decision based on the advice given by the Advocate General and that they haven’t decided by themselves. Come on men, just think about the accusation you throw against your opposition before coming up with such a foolish proposition. You argue that the Congress government at the centre influenced the CBI for concocting a case against Pinarayi. So if we go by that argument, if the Government at centre can influence an organisation like CBI, can’t the state government headed by the CPI (M) members influence the Advocate General to come up with an opinion that suits it? That means there is no steam in that argument and hence we Malayalees who are more intelligent that what you politicians think we are and want us to be, reject the argument and jettison it completely.
Now the rule that you need the approval of the Governor for giving charge sheet to a minister or ex-minister is in itself a stupid rule. The governor is supposed to act based on the advice of the council of ministers and if the council of ministers is from the party of the person in question, the advice of the cabinet will certainly be in line with what happened in this case. So until and unless you have a set of politicians who think and behave in a more moral way, which is anyways not the case in our society, corruption cases on ministers and ex-ministers will have the same fate as that of this case.
For some time I want to be on the side of Mr. Pinarayi and want to reassure him and want to tell him that there is no need for him to worry. He should not worry about going to the court and then if found guilty, go to the jail as there has never been an instance in India where a politician got to the jail on account of corruption. Because our judicial system is so slow and malleable that it has always found it impossible to prove any politician guilty of corruption. So Pinarayi should have no qualms about going to the court. And again as you and your party men claim, you have been a brave comrade all your life with no fear of even walking through the dark streets in Kannur where there had been knife wielding opponents lurking in the dark. And secondly, even if the court declares that you are guilty, you can still make your party agitate against the judiciary, as has been the case always whenever there had been some judgements against the wishes of the party.
These days CPI (M) is hell bent to put all blame for its fiasco on the media. The party is saying that there is some media syndicate that is working to reduce the party to a thing of the past; saying that behind all these issues, there is the hand of the United States and other colonialist forces. In spite of all these doubts, the party has not been able to prove any if these things with ample proof. So it seems that the whole party is facing a sort of psychological problem called paranoia, where they feel that no one could be trusted and everyone around them are trying to kill them, kill the party. Or if it is not this disorder, then the party leaders in Kerala think that they are on par with great socialist leaders like Fidel Castro and Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and hence the United States is after them and trying to finish them off.
Now coming back to the SFI kids, or say men. I had been the member of the SFI in University College and had participated in the so called “agitations against injustice.” And for that matter, everyone in the college was an SFI member, because party memberships were imposed on anyone and everyone with a nominal fee of Re.1. Of course it never mattered whether you have given the fee or not, the big hearted leaders of the party never asked for the nominal fee. Anyways being an ex member of the SFI, I am pretty happy to know that my new comrades have got a great opportunity to get to the streets and do whatever they like.
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