Thiruvananthapuram, July 24 (BPNS)

The Communist Party of India (CPI) has come out strongly against the CPM and said that there was a deliberate attempt to brand the left democratic front (LDF) as Pinarayi government. Party members who were participating in the Thiruvananthapuram district committee meeting spoke about the need for internal discussions on the government and said that there were no such attempts in the previous LDF governments led by E.K. Nayanar, P.K. Vasudevan Nair or V.S. Achuthanandan and said that branding an LDF government was not acceptable according to communist ideals.

The party members also flayed the home ministry under Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and said that the state police was drawing flak from the general society for its failures and even its highhandedness including lockup torture and murders. CPI members also said that the Chief Minister traveling in a cavalcade of more than 40 vehicles was unheard of in the history of Kerala and charged the state CPI leadership for keeping a studied silence on the matter.

The members also said that the state CPI leadership was not giving any concrete opinion on the environmental issues being mishandled by the left government led by the CPM. Members also said that the K-Rail was a classic example in which the government and the left front became unacceptable to the general public.

The CPI district committee meeting also came out against the state leadership for having lost the Thiruvananthapuram loksabha seat to Dr. Shashi Tharoor of Congress. The party leadership told the state leadership to commence election work in the constituency with immediate effect.

Shashi Tharoor has been winning from the Thiruvananthapuram loksabha seat since 2009 continuously.