Hello
He was elected to the Kerala Assembly from the Nedumangad constituency twice.
CPI State secretary Kanam Rajendran, while justifying the move, said that the State leadership was following the guidelines issued by the party national council.
The CPI leadership slammed the incident in which a protestor was brutally stomped with boots by a policeman.
The state government had the other day transferred ADGP Sreejith at a time when the Crime Branch was reportedly making headway in the high-profile case.
It was only after both the CPI and CPM ensured that no such incidents would happen in the future that Gopakumar deleted the post.
The general secretaries of both the CPM and CPI stressed on the need for working together to fight against the RSS and the BJP.
The article, apparently, was in retaliation to one in CPM publication 'Chintha' magazine that had launched a broadside against CPI saying the latter should have dropped the term 'Communist' from its name long ago, besides giving up its red flag, the party's banner.
Prakash Babu, the assistant state secretary of CPI, blamed government officials for the mess. 'Why are some officials displaying haste to implement the project? Their intentions are suspect,' he said.
Kumar, who is the son of M.P. Veerendra Kumar, got the Rajya Sabha seat after his father passed away in 2020. His term is ending on April 2.
The LDF has fielded CPM state committee member A A Rahim and CPI leader P Santhosh Kumar as the front's candidates and are likely to win the two seats.