Efforts to pacify Sudhakaran fail; veteran CPI(M) chief to skip KSKTU occasion

Attempts to pacify Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] chief G. Sudhakaran, who’s at loggerheads with the social gathering, appear to have failed with him deciding to skip an award ceremony organised by Karshaka Thozhilali, the official journal of the social gathering’s affiliate organisation, the KSKTU, at Mankombu in Kuttanad on Sunday (October 19, 2025).

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In the morning, Mr. Sudhakaran left his home for Kollam to attend one other programme. Speaking to the media, the veteran CPI(M) chief mentioned the organisers may go forward with the programme on their very own and that his presence was not needed.

Last week, CPI(M) leaders C.S. Sujatha, R. Nazar and M. Sathyapalan visited Mr. Sudhakaran at his home and invited him to the award distribution ceremony to be held at Mankombu on Sunday night (October 19, 2025), which will probably be attended by social gathering normal secretary M.A. Baby, State secretary M.V. Govindan and different leaders. The go to got here a day after Mr. Sudhakaran accused social gathering colleague and Fisheries and Culture Minister Saji Cherian, together with a couple of different leaders, of plotting to get him expelled from the social gathering.

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Later in an interview with The Hindu, Mr. Sudhakaran mentioned there was no problem with the social gathering and that he remained a member of the CPI(M). Regarding Saji Cherian, he mentioned Mr. Cherian had made an “un-Marxian” assertion in opposition to him by way of the press. “In that assertion, he requested me to go facet by facet with the social gathering. I replied that I’m already within the social gathering, not exterior it. I’m social gathering man. Every social gathering member is inside the social gathering construction. The assertion made by Saji Cherian was the difficulty. He mustn’t communicate like this a few member who has 62 years of expertise within the undivided social gathering and within the CPI(M). Saji Cherian was nonetheless a faculty scholar after I grew to become a cadre of the social gathering,” Mr. Sudhakaran mentioned.

It was not instantly identified why he made a u-turn on attending the KSKTU programme after reportedly accepting the invitation earlier.