To the question of Congress or Party Congress, KV Thomas finally replied: ‘Party Congress.’
KV made the important decision to attend a seminar on ‘Center-State Relations’ to be held tomorrow at the CPM’s Kannur Party Congress. Thomas announced yesterday. With two days left for the seminar, Prof. The decision was announced by Thomas. KV said that the confidence shown by the CPM state leadership and the party congress organizing committee was not in vain. Thomas’s announcement yesterday. KV then answered the question as to why the suspense lasted for so long. Can only be given to Thomas.
KV, who rose to prominence in the Congress as a loyal follower of Karunakaran. Thomas was a chemistry teacher. No one needs to teach Mash the chemistry of politics. Realizing that Congress was no longer alive in politics, Thomas took a timely look. It would be a disgrace to just jump out of the Congress and go with the CPM. He has also publicly expressed his desire for a seat in the recent Rajya Sabha elections. It did not happen. If he had jumped then he would have been accused of lust for power. Now that’s not the point. It is time to accuse the BJP-ruled central government of continuing its policy of undermining the federal system. When the CPM organizes an important seminar to discuss it, Thomas declares that it is political duty to attend, and breaks the Congress leadership’s ban. He can say that political commitment leads to more than a breach of party discipline. Although Congressmen do not believe it.
KV to lead Congress Thomas’ move is tiring for the time being. First, the reduction of the political decision taken by the party to subvert the senior leader himself. Another is that banning a senior leader from a seminar discussing a political issue against the BJP approach would make the CPM a political weapon. Yesterday, CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan blamed the Congress for not accepting anything that annoyed the BJP.
The party leadership decided not to accept the invitation to attend the CPM’s seminar at a time when the Congress was in a strong struggle over the Silver Line issue. The Congress also said that Kannur was the district most affected by the CPM’s violent politics during the party congress.
The leadership had also banned Congress leaders from attending the state convention in Kochi. The leaders were banned by the High Command following the demand of the KPCC. Following this, INTUC President R.K. Chandrasekharan and Shashi Tharoor MP left.
KV, who served for 22 years as an MP, eight years as an MLA, three years as a state minister and in 2009 as an independent minister in the Manmohan Singh government at the Center. The isolation within the party began in 2019 when Congress again denied Thomas a seat. It can be said that he was utterly neglected later on. He became the working president of the KPCC shortly before the last assembly elections but soon had to resign. It was this neglect that fueled KV Thomas’ thinking for change. The CPM’s Party Congress gave him the best opportunity to do so. Thomas’ way is now out of Congress. The leadership has already given its hint.
K.M. The CPM had played politics on an equal footing by inviting Mani to the seminar of the Organizing Plenum in 2013 and the seminar of the Thrissur State Conference in 2018. In 2018, just as the CPM was preparing to embrace Mani and his party, who had attended a seminar on Kerala Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, forgetting about the Barcoza agitation.