KOCHI: The dispute between the CPI and the CPM in Ernakulam district shows no sign of abating with the CPI coming out with a hard-hitting statement that the CPM should not teach the importance of Left unity to CPI state secretary Kanam Rajendran. In a tit-for-tat to the statement of the CPM district secretariat the other day, the CPI district executive stated that the CPM should not try to teach anything to a party which had no qualms in abandoning the chief minister’s post for the sake of Left unity.
“The CPM is trying to blame the mirror for its loss of face,” CPI district secretary P. Raju said in a release on Sunday. The two parties have been sparring in Ernakulam district following the CPI decision to admit several party workers, including leaders at the local level expelled by the CPM. The district CPM leadership has alleged that the expelled persons had committed grave mistakes and were known for hobnobbing with class enemies.
“If all these people worked against the interest of the LDF during the elections, why the CPM remained silent on the issue”, Mr. Raju said in a statement. The CPM was trying to project all those leaving the CPM as anti-socials while terming those leaving the CPI and joining the CPM as great heroes and heroines, he added.
