The inevitable end

The inevitable end

FPJ BureauUpdated: Friday, May 31, 2019, 11:53 PM IST
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The future of the tripartite Government of Kerala appears to be bleak more than somewhat. Aside from the internal strains caused by the interplay of three distinctly different forces constituting the Government, the real and therefore the greater danger lies in the reported threat of the organisational wing of the Pradesh congress to withdraw its support. Considering that the State congress party as a whole is the main prop of the Pattom Thanu Pillai Government, its threat cannot be dismissed lightly. At first sight, it would seem that the hard core of the anti- Alliance clique in the Pradesh Congress is aiming its blow at the PSP which has been found to be increasingly undesirable and the Muslim league whose undesirability has never been in doubt. But it is not so. What has really inspired the anti-Alliance group, allegedly masterminded by a congress Minister and ex- Minister who is temporarily a non-entity in the State congress, is the fact that both the Deputy Chief Minister Shri R. Sanker and the Home Minister Shri P.T. Chacko, whom Shri Pattom Thanu Pillai has firmly on the leash, are seeking to capture power in the KPCC. The anti-Alliance Group wants to foil this effort even if it results in the downfall of the present Ministry. The struggle for power in the KPCC has been going on for some time. An open clash between the anti-Alliance Group and their adversaries in the Government was averted recently by the postponement of the PCC elections originally scheduled to be held before the end of this month to April 1961. This postponement was perhaps necessary in view of the spate of charges and countercharges which seemed to show that both the cliques in the congress were engaged in recruiting bogus members in order to rig up the PCC elections. There is no reason to suppose that the causes for such charges to be flung at each other have been entirely eliminated. Added to this confusion there is a set of Congressmen who sincerely believe that the tripartite coalition Ministry has been a failure and that the only remedy is to follow the Orissa example and prepare the Congress to go to people again in 1962. There is much to be said for this view particularly since all the three constituents to the coalition seem to be doing just what they accused the Communists of doing when they were in power: abusing the powers of office for the benefit of their respective parties. Therefore, there will be no regret either in Kerala or elsewhere if the coalition of incompatibles comes to an end.

5th December 1960.

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