General secretary of the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam Vellappally Natesan represents only the rich in the Ezhava community, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, State secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), has said.
Addressing a meet the press programme organised by the Kollam Press Club on Sunday, Mr. Balakrishnan said the expectations of the Bharatiya Janata Party to put up a third front by joining hands with a section of the SNDP had been belied.
“The BJP has realised that it has shouldered trouble by promoting Vellappally. The SNDP leadership is not interested in intervening in the problems of the poor in that community. But it is the poor members of the Ezhava community, most of them working in the traditional sectors, who provide strength to the CPI(M),” he said.
"Seer's kin raising questions"
Mr. Balakrishnan said it was seer Saswathikananda’s relatives who were raising questions about the cause of death. In such a situation a reinvestigation was needed. Though the Crime Branch had probed the death during LDF rule, some facts about the death which were not known then had now surfaced.
Answering a question he said that the rank and file of the Revolutionary Socialist Party would have second thoughts about their party’s alliance with the United Democratic Front after the results to the local body elections are out.
He reiterated the allegation that there was an ‘unholy nexus’ between the BJP and the Congress in the local body elections. At the programme Mr. Balakrishnan released the election manifesto of the LDF for the Kollam district panchayat.
