Family, party, platform

#Family, Party, Platform

Health Minister Veena George's husband George Joseph has written a letter to the CPM leadership requesting that she not contest the assembly elections. With this, Kerala politics has got a new family ethics. The husband will ask his wife not to contest, and the wife will ask her husband not to contest.

This marriage diplomacy, which officially informs the party what can be said directly to his wife, was also discussed in the Pathanamthitta district secretariat. Thomas Isaac, who is still frustrated by not getting a party seat, also submitted a report to the state leadership regarding Veena George's letter. It is doubtful whether there is a party strategy behind this to let Isaac contest from the Aranmula seat. The common story is that you do not know a thing about this party.

When party secretary M V Govindan was fielding his wife P K Shyamala as a candidate in Taliparamba, another husband in Pathanamthitta was asking him not to field his wife. Seeing this strange request, it seems that if his wife contests, she will immediately win.  Such a tone of opposition indicates that not only politics is number one in Kerala, but also the family is in struggle.

Hearing all this, one thing is clear: the main issue is not the fear of Veena George winning if she contests, but the husband's concern about who will be responsible if she loses. The real motivation for this letter is the conviction that the people know about her performance as Health Minister. 

In the meantime, if Veena George's dramatic performance at Kannur Railway Station in front of the media is added, this political serial will now turn into a grand drama with three parts: 'Family, Party, Platform'. The gist of the minister's letter may be that politics is a cesspool and those who enter it will get dirty.

-K. A. Solaman