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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s run foray into Alappuzha connected Wednesday (April 1, 2026) opened with a broadside against the dissident Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] seasoned G. Sudhakaran, whose candidature arsenic a Congress-backed Independent successful the Ambalappuzha constituency poses a situation to the Left Democratic Front’s (LDF) successful immoderate measurement successful the cardinal cardinal Kerala district.
Mr. Vijayan formed Mr. Sudhakaran’s candidature arsenic “a stark illustration of the convergence of the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s transactional governmental lines.” He said the “Congress-BJP gambit” to backmost Mr. Sudhakaran, contempt dissension wrong the respective parties, belied the UDF’s charges astir a CPI(M)-BJP “deal” successful Kerala.
Mr. Vijayan noted that Mr. Sudhakaran had pointedly claimed past week that helium would unafraid “5,000 BJP votes.” Mr. Sudhakaran had besides posited that “not each BJP workers are Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) supporters.”
‘Sudhakaran walking a tightrope’
Mr. Vijayan stated that Mr. Sudhakaran was “walking a tightrope” betwixt the Congress and the BJP, and could “fall into either camp” arsenic the dice rolled.
Mr. Vijayan said Mr. Sudhakaran appeared compelled to “prove his worthy to his newfound backers.” He said “political neo-converts” and defectors often showed much zeal successful attacking their erstwhile parties arsenic “a rite of passage.”
“The CPI(M) tin recognize Mr. Sudhakaran’s predicament. He has to repeatedly beryllium his usefulness and loyalty to the Congress and the BJP by tarnishing his erstwhile comrades”, helium said.
Mr. Sudhakaran had precocious upped the ante successful the acrimonious quality with his erstwhile enactment by attacking the CPI(M)’s territory leadership, chiefly Minister for Culture Saji Cherian. He besides took potshots astatine Mr. Vijayan. Notably, Mr. Sudhakaran dared Mr. Vijayan to contention from Ambalappuzha alternatively than “hedge against electoral decision by choosing a harmless constituency” successful Kannur.
Mr. Sudhakaran’s avowal to decision Agriculture Minister and Communist Party of India (CPI) person P. Prasad successful Cherthala has also, successful immoderate measure, convulsed the LDF’s run successful the district.
Mr. Vijayan besides appeared to gully connected the past to allay the LDF’s concerns successful Alappuzha. He said the CPI(M) had faced upheavals successful Alappuzha successful the past and emerged unscathed, perchance successful an oblique notation to factional issues the enactment battled successful 1994 (K.R. Gowri) and 1996-2009 (late Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan).
Mr. Vijayan said Alappuzha has “always chosen the enactment implicit the individual.”
“Personality cult-oriented authorities has scarce lasting among a radical who uphold the enduring bequest and revolutionary zeal of the Punnapra-Vayalar agrarian uprising against assemblage rule, serfdom and feudalism”, helium said.
