Posters in Delhi ask CPM to make Dawood party चीफ

Posters in Delhi ask CPM to make Dawood party चीफ

PNS New Delhi Saturday, January 31, 2009

Can anyone imagine fugitive Mafioso Dawood Ibrahim being made the general secretary of the CPI(M)? It is hard, but that is exactly what some rebels in the party of its fellow-travelers view as more appropriate than letting Prakash Kart lead the CPI(M) without taking action against Politburo member and Kerala unit secretary Pinarayi Vijayan even after the CBI charging him with criminal conspiracy in a huge corruption case.

Posters that appeared on Jantar Mantar Road, Baba Kharak Singh Marg and Sansad Marg, stuck by fellow-travelers of the party, questioned the legitimacy of Karat's act of supporting Pinarayi Vijayan even after the CBI listed him as the ninth accused in the SNC Lavalin case.

The posters sarcastically called for appointing Dawood Ibrahim as general secretary of the CPI(M) instead of Praksh Karat. The bills, questioning the Politburo’s position of favoruing Pinarayi even after such a huge scam had come out, likened Karat to Dawood. They also ‘demanded’ that Monica Bedi should be made PB member instead of Sitaram Yechuri.

Delhi, like several places in Kerala, had been witnessing extensive poster campaigns against Pinarayi over the SNC Lavalin issue. The posters had appeared on Friday at the same place where bills had been put up earlier in the context writer and Sahithya Akademi president M Mukunadan's reference to VS Achuthanandan as outdated saint.

Posters in English and Malayalam had kept on appearing in several Delhi arreas after the Politburo formally decided to support Pinarayi in the issue of the scam. These posters that had appeared in English as well as Malayalam had referred to Pinarayi as the executioner for the CPI(M). Delhi had seen Malayalee workers and supporters of CPI(M) coming out on the streets in demonstration in March 2006 when the Politburo had refused to make Achuthnandan a candidate in the Assembly election.


Posters criticising Pinarayi and his companions have been appearing all over in Kannur, the capital of the Pinarayi-campers, and Kasaragod. The flex-printed, multicolor boards appearing in Kannur and the surrounding areas feature Pinarayi' Vijayan's pictures with raised hands. In his clenched fist is seen a wad of currency notes. The boards reads: ‘“Pinarayi, thief of the poor’” and ‘“Imprison Pinarayi’”.

Kasaragod was the place where the poster war had appeared first and, according to reports, the supporters of Achuthanandan had succeeded in getting an upper hand in this on the Pinarayi loyalists. The neo-liberalists were forced to remove almost all the boards and banners that they had put up to popularise the Yatra in the first round after the enemy posters appeared.

The pro-Pinarayi men removed the boards and banners with huge pictures of their leader and put up new ones with pictures of late leaders like EMS Namboothirippad, AK Gopalan and EK Nayanar. In Kasaragod district also, the police were keeping a close watch on the situation.

In the meantime, protests in the camp of Chief Minister and PB member VS Achuthanandan against the tirade made against him by KEN Kunhahammad, secretary, Purogamana Kalasahithya Sangham, the cultural outfit of the CPI(M). Demonstrations were held in several places against Kunhahammad and his effigies were burned.

Rebels in the SFI burned an effigy of Kunhahammad at the Government Law College, Thrissur on Friday, protesting against his tirade against Achuthanandan. The activists had been expelled after similar anti-Pinarayi protests staged when the CPI(M) central leadership first refused to make Achuthanandan a candidate in the last Assembly election. DYFI workers had on Thursday evening burned Kunhahammed’s effigy at Vadakara, Kozhikode.


Making an indirect reference to Achuthanandan for his anti-Pinarayi stand on the SNC Lavalin issue, Kunhahammd had made scathing attacks against the octogenarian communist. On Wednesday, Kunhahammad had warned Achuthanandan not to project himself as a different man when the entire party was supporting Pinarayi and on Thursday he called an imbecile who was feigning not to understand the reality surrounding him.

Source: http://www.dailypioneer.com/153382/Posters-in-Delhi-ask-CPM-to-make-Dawood-party-chief.html