Row within LDF in Keralam: CPI, CPI(M) question each other’s legacy as IUML sends feelers to CPI
Tensions are rising within Kerala's Left Democratic Front as the CPI and CPI(M) trade accusations regarding their political legacies and internal hierarchy. The Indian Union Muslim League has attempted to exploit these divisions by courting the CPI.
Why it matters
Internal instability within a major state-level political alliance can significantly impact regional governance and future electoral coalitions in India.
As the skirmish between the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)], the two major partners of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Keralam, over the post of Deputy Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly continues unabated, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has put out feelers to the CPI, characterising it as representing true Communist ideals and being forced to play second fiddle to the CPI(M) within the alliance.
In an article in the party mouthpiece Chandrika , K.P.A. Majeed, national vice-president of the IUML, extolled the virtues of the CPI, sympathising with its “plight of being made subservient to the CPI(M)”. Mr. Majeed also wrote about the C. Achutha Menon-led governments in which the CPI partnered with the Congress and the IUML, arguing that the period laid the foundation for the famed Kerala Model of development.
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