THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Ahead of the Thiruvananthapuram district conference, the CPM district leadership too has admitted the impropriety behind the ‘mega Thiruvathira’ dance performance organized by the party unit on the day when the body of SFI worker Dheeraj was taken in procession from Idukki to Kannur for funeral.
CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan had said that the dance programme as part of the party conference should have been dropped.
“We should have postponed the programme. We could not scrap the event as hundreds of participants had reached the venue for the performance,” the district secretary told the media on Thursday. Education minister V Sivankutty also came out against the programme for which senior CPM leaders, including politburo member M A Baby, were spectators.
While Baby is yet to react on the incident that put the CPM in defence, Sivankutty said the dance programme did reflect the lack of diligence on the part of the organizers when Covid cases are rising in the state.
It was Janathipathya Mahila Congress of Parassala area committee that organized the ‘Thiruvathira’ featuring 550 women.
The dance programme, conceived as a paean to the CPM and LDF government, showered accolades to chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan by projecting him as the leader who saved Keralites from the perils imposed by natural calamities.
Following the controversy, Parassala police have registered a case against the organizers for Covid protocol violation.
Meanwhile, the district conference would begin with floral tributes at the Martyr’s Square at 10am on Friday.
Chief minister and CPM politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan would inaugurate the conference at 10.30am.
