THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The CPI has further distanced from the CPM on the move to amend the Lok Ayukta Act. Party state secretary Kanam Rajendran on Friday said the move could not be justified just because it posed an existential threat to the government. If at all such a situation emerged, it should be fought by fielding people against it, he said.
Rajendran was responding to CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan's arguments in an article published in the party mouthpiece on Friday. Balakrishnan had termed the amendment as a proactive step to foil the possible intervention by the central government to unsettle the state government by using the provisions in the act and the governor.
"I'm yet to receive a reply to my question, what urgency forced the government to take an ordinance route to amend the act. Instances of removing the state government using governor is not something non-existent in the Indian context. It can happen in Kerala also," Rajendran said.
CPI state assistant secretary Prakash Babu also came out against Kodiyeri's arguments, saying they were not logical.
