KOCHI/KANNUR: The sudden announcement of CPM strongman and Industries Minister EP Jayarajan to stop electoral politics has come as a shock for occasion staff and political observers. It’s a pointer to the uneasiness slowly growing within the Kannur foyer of CPM in opposition to the supremacy of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Jayarajan, who was stored out of the fray, advised a information convention in Kannur that he’s retiring from electoral politics as he has turn out to be outdated and is plagued with well being issues.
“Issues should not as you see it. I get outdated and can’t be actively concerned in election actions and different companies to individuals,” he stated. “I cannot struggle in one other election. I don’t want to struggle both. It’s the occasion’s resolution to not permit seats to those that had accomplished two consecutive phrases. So, my time period is over,” stated Jayarajan.
“I used to be MLA for 3 phrases and a minister within the current cupboard. That’s sufficient,” he stated. Jayarajan stated he had wished to come back again within the ministry after his ignominious exit to clear the allegations in opposition to him. “I completed that too,” he stated.When identified that Pinarayi has additionally turn out to be outdated, Jayarajan stated, “Pinarayi Vijayan is a good one who possesses extraordinary power and skills. If I might be wherever close to his stature, I might turn out to be a fantastic man.
It’s my nice disappointment that I can’t be like him. He has a transparent imaginative and prescient about every thing he does and is a decided man.” There’s extra to his plain phrases than meets the attention. Sources stated Jayarajan was upset after he was denied a ticket. Well being Minister Okay Okay Shailaja is contesting from Mattannur, from the place Jayarajan gained in 2016.
Mediapersons who tried to contact Jayarajan weren’t entertained and he didn’t confide something even to his shut associates. There’s a feeling that Jayarajan and Pinarayi weren’t having a cordial relationship of late. Pinarayi got here up the stipulation that those that efficiently contested twice shouldn’t be within the fray to maintain T M Thomas Isaac and G Sudhakaran away. Jayarajan anticipated an exemption, but it surely didn’t materialise resulting from many components.
There have been some controversies surrounding the chief which paved the best way for his exit from the cupboard. He returned to the submit after the Vigilance gave him a clear chit within the case. Jayarajan’s spouse’s go to to a financial institution in Kannur final September whereas she was allegedly underneath quarantine had kicked up one other row. She clarified that she was not underneath quarantine and had gone to the financial institution to take some ornaments to present her grandchildren throughout their birthday.
The founding nationwide president of the DYFI, Jayarajan was the sufferer of political violence greater than as soon as. He was shot inside a practice whereas getting back from Chandigarh after attending the occasion congress in 1995. A seriously-injured Jayarajan was admitted to varied hospitals and resides with a chunk of bullet inside his physique. It was alleged that Congress chief Okay Sudhakaran was the primary conspirator within the incident, however the court docket eliminated his title from the chargesheet. A rustic bomb was thrown at Jayarajan at Thalassery in 2000 allegedly by RSS staff, however the accused was let off by the court docket.
CPM is actively contemplating elevating Jayarajan, who was the CPM Kannur district secretary for a few years, because the occasion state secretary after the elections. Protest had erupted in CPM after seat was denied to a different senior chief P Jayarajan, who was accused of ‘rising taller than the occasion.’ The Fb web page ‘PJ Military’ was boiling with resentment in opposition to the occasion for ignoring the chief who was the sufferer of RSS violence. A flex board hailing Jayarajan had appeared in Dharmadom from the place Pinarayi is contesting.
Observers really feel that the voices of dissent in opposition to Pinarayi will die out if LDF phases a comeback. However factionalism will return with a vengeance if Left tastes a defeat on the hustings.
