Bureaucrats find themselves caught in a career-threatening crossfire as the chasm between the CPM and its Chief Minister continues to widen in Kerala, reports Anu Warrier
What can a civil service officer close to the state Chief Minister expect when he is facing disciplinary action? A cakewalk, you would reckon. But if you are K. Suresh Kumar, IAS officer and trusted confidant of Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, the tables can turn.
Suresh Kumar was the leader of the special team that
Achuthanandan had set up for the first phase of the unsuccessful Munnar Mission, which tried to drive out wealthy and politically connected encroachers from the hill station. Suresh Kumar is now under suspension for the last seven months after his public stand against the CM’s personal and political secretaries. Even though the CM signed an order to reinstate Suresh Kumar after accepting an inquiry report by Chief Secretary Neela Gangadharan, it is yet to be implemented. Reason: the CM’s party is against reinstating Suresh. The CPM had ordered the CM’s office to freeze the order until the party state secretariat took a decision on Suresh Kumar’s case.
Moreover, a move is afoot to frame Suresh Kumar in other cases related to alleged irregularities in the State Cooperative Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development. He was the Managing Director of the bank when the controversy regarding the CM’s office erupted.
Suresh Kumar is not the first or last victim of the CPM’s factional feud. Last week, C.R. Neelakandan, a social activist and environmentalist close to the CM’s camp, was transferred to the Hyderabad office of Keltron, a state government enterprise. Neelakandan was in the news recently for authoring a book on the reality of the Lavalin case in which the CPM state secretary, Pinarayi Vijayan. is one of the accused.
In another incident, a Kerala University professor who had compared Pinarayi with Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung in an article published in an English newspaper was denied promotion. The CPM state leadership is doing everything in its power to thwart Achuthanandan’s attempts to portray the state secretary and his cronies as corrupt. The party’s central leadership had recently ousted the CM from its politbureau, alleging the octogenarian leader had been violating party discipline.
The party state leadership’s targeting of Suresh Kumar proves that action against Achuthanandan has not been effective in putting out the fire of factionalism in the Kerala CPM. Opposition leader Oommen Chandy asserts that these incidents prove the allegations regarding lack of coordination in the state administration.
What can a civil service officer close to the state Chief Minister expect when he is facing disciplinary action? A cakewalk, you would reckon. But if you are K. Suresh Kumar, IAS officer and trusted confidant of Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, the tables can turn.
Suresh Kumar was the leader of the special team that
Achuthanandan had set up for the first phase of the unsuccessful Munnar Mission, which tried to drive out wealthy and politically connected encroachers from the hill station. Suresh Kumar is now under suspension for the last seven months after his public stand against the CM’s personal and political secretaries. Even though the CM signed an order to reinstate Suresh Kumar after accepting an inquiry report by Chief Secretary Neela Gangadharan, it is yet to be implemented. Reason: the CM’s party is against reinstating Suresh. The CPM had ordered the CM’s office to freeze the order until the party state secretariat took a decision on Suresh Kumar’s case.Moreover, a move is afoot to frame Suresh Kumar in other cases related to alleged irregularities in the State Cooperative Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development. He was the Managing Director of the bank when the controversy regarding the CM’s office erupted.
Suresh Kumar is not the first or last victim of the CPM’s factional feud. Last week, C.R. Neelakandan, a social activist and environmentalist close to the CM’s camp, was transferred to the Hyderabad office of Keltron, a state government enterprise. Neelakandan was in the news recently for authoring a book on the reality of the Lavalin case in which the CPM state secretary, Pinarayi Vijayan. is one of the accused.
In another incident, a Kerala University professor who had compared Pinarayi with Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung in an article published in an English newspaper was denied promotion. The CPM state leadership is doing everything in its power to thwart Achuthanandan’s attempts to portray the state secretary and his cronies as corrupt. The party’s central leadership had recently ousted the CM from its politbureau, alleging the octogenarian leader had been violating party discipline.
The party state leadership’s targeting of Suresh Kumar proves that action against Achuthanandan has not been effective in putting out the fire of factionalism in the Kerala CPM. Opposition leader Oommen Chandy asserts that these incidents prove the allegations regarding lack of coordination in the state administration.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
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