Leader of the Opposition Ramesh Chennithala has urged the CPI(M) Polit Bureau to take a clear stand whether the BJP or the Congress is its main political opponent.
Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Mr. Chennithala said while CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury viewed the BJP as the CPI(M)’s main opponent, the party’s Kerala unit considered the Congress as its main opponent.
Mr. Chennithala called upon the State government to introduce legislation on campus politics in the wake of the High Court’s order that campuses should be politics-free.
Alleging that it was the attitude of the Students Federation of India (SFI) that made the court to pass such an order, he said the SFI did not allow other organisations to function on campuses. Campus politics and freedom for all organisations were important for democracy, he said.
Mr. Chennithala said the SNC-Lavalin corruption case had become live now with Kerala State Electricity Board’s former chief engineer Kasthuri Ranga Iyer, one of the accused, moving the Supreme Court seeking his acquittal in the case.
