சிபிஎம் குண்டர்கள் மல்லப்புரம் பிரஸ் கிளப்புக்குள் உள்ளே நுழைந்து பத்திரிக்கையாளர்களள அடித்து துவைத்தனர்.
காரணம், இந்த பத்திரிக்கையாளர்கள், சிபிஎம் கான்பரசின் உள்ளே சிபிஎம் ஆட்கள் ஒருவரை ஒருவர் அடித்துக்கொண்டதையும், யார் எந்த பதவிக்கு வருவது என்பதற்காக வெட்ட்டுக்குத்து செய்ததையும் வீடியோவில் படம் பிடித்து வெளியிட்டதுமே (நம் ஊர் காங்கிரஸ்காரர்கள் மாதிரி)
தாங்கள் வன்முறையாளர்கள் இல்லை என்பதை நிரூபிக்க சிபிஎம் குண்டர்களும் வன்முறையை கையில் எடுத்துக்கொண்டுவிட்டார்கள்.
CPM workers barge into Press Club, manhandle scribes
Pioneer News Service | Malapuram The intolerance of the Marxists in the State against truth was exposed on Wednesday when CPI(M) activists barged into the Press Club here and attacked mediamen. Six newspersons suffered injuries in the attack by the Marxists prompted by their intolerance towards reports about the rampant divisionism that was reflected at the party's Malappuram district conference, which concluded here on Wednesday.
The comrades who had come for the conference rushed to the Press Club after reports came out in the media, especially the visual media, that faction fights at the meet had led to voting to decide the district committee members and the district secretary. Scores of CPI(M) activists barged into the Press Club and attacked cameramen of TV channels and TV and newspaper reporters present there without waiting to hear the explanations offered by the journalists.
In protest, newsmen informed the party leaders that they would not cover the conference proceedings and would not attend the Press conferences by the leaders who were eagerly waiting to talk to the Press. The issue was settled later after the intervention of senior leaders like TK Hamza. Hamza and other senior leaders pleaded with the mediamen to be calm and to consider the outrage as a mere expression of the sentiments of the comrades.
This is not for the first time that the comrades were turning against mediamen at Malappuram during party conferences. During the last State conference of the party in February 2005 here, the comrades had tried to manhandle certain newsmen for their reports on divisionism, which had then reached the level of 'selected leaks' to the media and even espionage activities including phone tapping by rivals.
After a group war-propelled voting, accompanied by loud voices of allegations and counter-allegations, the conference selected neo-liberalist K Ummer Master as the district secretary of the party rejecting the proposals in favour of the hardliners' choice, TK Hamza. Hamza later told newsmen that voting had indeed been held but this was no sign of divisionism. "Election is a democratic process, and it cannot be interpreted as a sign of divisionism," he said.
Ummer Master is a loyalist of party State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, who leads the neo-liberalist faction in the CPI(M) against the hardliners led by Politburo member and Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan. K Saidalikkutty, the outgoing 82-year-old secretary, was a consensus candidate for continuing in the post, but he wanted to quit due to ill-health. When the Pinarayi faction proposed the name of Ummer Master in this context, the VS-loyalists wanted Hamza to be in the chair. Discussions at various levels since morning till late afternoon could not produce a consensus and a voting was necessitated.
The end result was that the neo-liberalists conquered the district committee in a conference process, which nobody, not even those inside the party, had expected to see overt signs of divisionism. The election process, which is always seen as a crisis of organisational discipline in the Marxist party, helped the Pinarayi faction get the control of the district committee with the only two candidates - A Sivadasan and MP Alavi - from the Achuthanandan faction getting defeated. But VS loyalists said that they were only making their protest against 'undemocratic' tendencies obvious with the full knowledge that their men were not going to get into the committee. This was the first voting in the ongoing district conferences.
The protests from the VS faction were sparked by the proposal of the Pinarayi group of the name of M Swaraj, SFI State secretary, known to be close to the party secretary, to the district committee. Swaraj did get into the committee but the slender margin with which he achieved that showed how much he was being disliked, even by members of his own group. Two other leaders from the same group, KP Anil, Malappuram district secretary of the DYFI, and TM Siddique, Ponnani area secretary of the party, also got into the district committee. The three men replaced VPS Nambeesan, Assain Karad and K Bappu.
Early morning had given the hope that the selection of members to the 35-strong district committee would be a smooth affair as the selection of 25 delegates for the State conference had taken place unanimously. But the feigned calm was disturbed once the name of Swaraj came up to the district committee.
Though there were several feuds going on in the district unit of the party, nobody had expected a divisionist posture of this magnitude. Actually, the Malappuram conference was supposed to be the calmest of all the meets so far, but once the placidness was broken not even senior leaders like Pinarayi, VS and others could do anything to control the fury of the comrades.
