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Communist Party of India (CPI) person and erstwhile Vaikom MLA K. Ajith joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He accepted the enactment rank from BJP State president Rajeev Chandrasekhar connected Sunday.
Mr. Ajith had represented the Vaikom Assembly constituency from 2006 to 2016 successful 2 terms. He attributed his determination to articulation the BJP to what helium termed the inability of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) to code the concerns and needs of the Dalit community, a conception which, helium said, helium represented.
The determination to articulation the BJP was not a abrupt one, Mr. Ajith, who has been a CPI subordinate for 40 years, told a property league successful Thiruvananthapuram.
Dalit communities had consistently been denied benefits eligible to them. Neither the ruling LDF nor the Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) had made immoderate effectual involution to bring astir a change. “I spoke to like-minded radical and we decided to attack the BJP,” helium said. He described the BJP arsenic the astir supportive governmental enactment arsenic acold arsenic the Dalits were concerned.
Mr. Ajith said that helium had presented his grievances earlier the CPI enactment six months ago.
Mr. Ajith besides expressed the anticipation that the BJP would beryllium capable to usher successful improvement successful Vaikom. Even though the 100th day of the Vaikom Satyagraha was celebrated past year, the celebrations did not see immoderate plans for the much-needed improvement of the constituency, helium alleged.
