: Backlashes were natural in politics and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) would relentlessly continue its struggle for the cause of the common man, CPI(M) State secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said.
The CPI(M) leader was inaugurating a public meeting organised by the party district committee here on Monday in protest against the police lathicharge on SFI-DYFI activists in the town last week.
He said it was not the CPI(M) policy to run away in the wake of an electoral defeat. Instead, the party would be in the forefront of agitations for the cause of the common man.
Mr. Balakrishnan alleged that both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party were playing reconciliation politics with an open motive to destroy the CPI(M).
He said the people of Kerala should think as to why the Attorney General of India had appeared in the Supreme Court for bar hotel owners.
The CPI(M) leader said it was none other than Chief Minister Oommen Chandy who had withdrawn the case against the Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader, Praveen Togadia, for the latter’s hate speech. It was the United Democratic Front Government that had excluded the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activists from the Mahatma Gandhi College attack case, he alleged.
Mr. Balakrishnan alleged that the UDF Government had given no value for the life of the poor as well as the backward people.
K.P.Udayabhanu, CPI(M) district secretary, presided.
R. Unnikrishna Pillai, K. Ananthagopan, .K.G. Nair, K.J. Thomas, P.K. Kumaran, R. Sanalkumar, P.J. Ajayakumar, V.K. Purushothaman Pillai, A. Padmakumar, and N. Sajikumar,
CPI(M) district leaders, spoke.
