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Corporate Social Responsibility 20-20 is the biggest political farce sponsored by the Kerala Marxist Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan- his political projectile!
P. S. Remesh Chandran
Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum
Article Title Image By Bri Tucker. Graphics: Adobe SP.
For most Malayalis, what is seen outside is something big to be rewarded with believing and swallowing. It was in the past that they took time to look inside and see and understand what inner truths were there! Most of the information, insights and opinions they form in daily life, and have, are gleaned from the TV media which they watch with wide-eyed fascination.
Suppose some particular news is coming. The media will consult with the so-called and self-appointed Marxist theologian and the state Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan or his cronies and decide whether to give it as such that way or this way. In the end it gives the news this way. When they twist like this, it is not the news they are twisting but these miserable Malayalis. Some wait before forming an opinion for some online media that would give them the same news in the original, and they come to know as it is. It is those convoluted-news believers who believe from those news that the old Anna Aluminum Company in Kerala changed its name to Kizhakkambalam Textiles, then to Kitex Group, and then finally formed a political party with the aforementioned name, tired of the tussles and brawls with the Marxist Party in Kerala left their home state, went to Uttar Pradesh or someplace, and started a new company there on a much larger scale with much more profit. If one has to do that much, and if one has to keep oneself alive doing it, it must be a good business, they must have a good business acumen and have strong ties with the BJP. If a company from Kerala is going to make more profit in a less industrially hostile environment in North India and leave Marxist sovereignty for BJP dominion, naturally it should overcome the anger of Malayalis who lose jobs on account of it, because it was not North India who fed that company until then. That was apparently what was happening behind their anti-Marxist calisthenics in Kerala. At that time, Malayalis did not know that it was this self-proclaimed enemy of the Marxist Party who contributed the most money in India from the industrial sector to them.
This covert money contribution of his to this party was not revealed voluntarily by him but it came out from the documents the Marxist Party was forced to submit to the Election Commission apropos the money contributions they received from industrialists, businessmen and individuals. By the time on account of this revelation it became clear that the people, especially those in the Twenty-Twenty, would recognize the political dishonesty in this, he immediately called a meeting of his party members and dignified himself by revealing this reprehensible contribution. In the history of India, has there ever been any leader, even if he is the founding leader, who has preached for more than three hours continuously about himself using the pronoun ‘I’ at a meeting of any party, describing his own exploits? Perhaps not even late R. Balakrishna Pillai’s own Kerala Congress! How many other businessmen in the state have fled accusing the Marxist Party of undue interference and coercion through government and party organs? They all put their faith in the legal processes and the judicial courts and fought and won a lot. Are not the people of Kerala familiar with the example of the owner of the Robin Bus who was continuously hunted by the various government departments of Kerala upon the urge of the Chief Minister Vijayan and his unprincipled Transport Minister? What is wide of the mark and off beam here is an industrialist who wants to take his business or industry elsewhere, to another state, without incurring the anger of the Malayalis who would lose their projected jobs on account of this shifting of venue, after bribing the ruling party to facilitate it without trouble. In fact, there was no protest from any parties and trade union organizations including those of the ruling Marxist Party over this transplant. The only thing to know yet is whether the monetary incentives given by that new state to this businessman-industrialist were also handed over straight to that minister Vijayan!
When the political corruption and bribes of Vijayan and his daughter came out through central investigations by such central agencies as the Income Tax Settlement Board, the Registrar of Companies and the Serious Fraud Investigation Office and also due to the initiatives of a couple of Kerala politicians, this 20-20’s chief came out to belittle it and shift the limelight elsewhere by articulating that he knew something bigger than those, if he was arrested in connection with any case he would send the Chief Minister Vijayan’s daughter to jail within a week, what knowledge he has about the Chief Minister’s family is an atom bomb which he could detonate anytime, and that all other accusers against the chief minister like Ms. Swapna Suresh, the Congressman-Lawyer Mr. Mathew Kuzhalnadan and P. C. George’s son Adv. Shon George, who raised serious allegations against the Chief Minister with irrefutable proof in courts as well as before the media were unsuccessful and ineffective. And he came out on time too- when Vijayan and his family were deep-fried with such allegations and investigations. The 20-20 chief’s was a feat no sane businessman in the world would have undertaken, except someone very much interested in saving the chief minister and his family in their time of peril by diverting people’s attention and talk from all other allegations and shrinking it and centering it on this supposed atom bomb of his! Isn't there a hideous political pattern visible in all these?
When Pinarayi Vijayan's troubles go to peak, a side door opens in his camp and this Sabu Jacob comes out! In a public gathering he organized on behalf of his amorphous and yet un-precipitated political party 20-20, he said that he had accompanied Vijayan, his family and other ministers and officials on all their officially-clothed foreign trips since 2016 as an unofficial escort but interested party, and had stayed with Vijayan for nearly a month when he was staying at a luxury hotel near the Mayo Clinic in the United States for a medical check-up for his purported illness. He said he was like a son to the chief minister and knew every clandestine deal the team set abroad. Think for yourself whether you will end up being an enemy or a staunch spy of his after being closely associated for long with a ruling party politician like this one, especially if you are a successful businessman with multi-national interests! Today all of a sudden he says he turned an enemy of that ‘victoriously corrupt and undefeatable person’ to put in his own words!! It’s a layer removed from reality. What will happen to ordinary Malayalis who are confused, and whom he intends to confuse, as to what the real picture is, if a burly businessman like him removes layer after layer from reality and presents things before people that way? Do one thing: don't believe anything he says unless you are able to place things in the right perspective and know the maths, geometry, and optical illusion to undo those layer-removals and make the image look real!
When from one side the Congressman-lawyer Mathew Kuzhalnadan whom the rogue Vigilance Department headed by Pinaraayi Vijayan tried in everyway to entrap and strangle in any case in any way, and from the other side another lawyer Mr. Shon George who is the son of Mr. P. C. George, the former MLA and former Minister who was actually arrested from his home at Poonjar and rushed to Trivandrum and imprisoned there for a few hours by the Police Department headed by the same Pinaraayi Vijayan before released in bail by court, released incriminating documents in press conferences and in law courts, proved before courts for the time being and before people for ever that Pinarayi Vijayan and his daughter accepted a meager amount of more than a 100 crore rupees of bribes from a private but partly state-owned rare earths company and released to them (him!) more than 50,000 crores rupees worth of state-owned rare earth deposits on public sea shores fit for refining and conversion to atomic material, Pinarayi Vijayan decided that two Christians are not enough and a third one would be needed, thus launching this political projectile Sabu Jacob, so that later one day he could claim that he is an angel and that all these allegations were created by some sects in the Christian Church of Kerala for his alienating them through administrative and political desicions. That was how, and for what, the 20-20’s owner Sabu Jacob appeared on the scene.
The argument of those propagandizing that 20-20 is not a projectile of Pinarayi Vijayan is that because of 20-20 the Marxist Party lost the administration of four Panchayats. Is there really any ardent, trustworthy and true relationship between Marxist Party and Pinarayi Vijayan politically? Does he, who has destroyed the Marxist Party through his family, friends, and followers such that it can’t rise up again ever, have any real anxiety about the future of this party? To him, what is the point in losing the rule of just four panchayats in a political arrangement that has long-term benefits for him, and would yield much to be reaped in the 2024 parliamentary elections for his party, when he was assured his political coalition would get more than 1600 panchayats in that local body election? Wasn't the aforementioned Marxist MLA from Kunnathunadu- the supposed unscrupulous enemy of the 20-20 and its Chief Coordinator- able to defeat the Congress candidate and win the seat only because 20-20 split the votes for the Marxist Party in this constituency?
At the end of February 2024, in a grand conference of his party which incidentally were attended by more than 50,000 people attracted by an equally grand feast, he said that the Kerala Police were chasing him with a lot of fabricated criminal cases and that if he was arrested in connection with any of these cases he would get Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s adored daughter also arrested for crimes he had plenty of evidence for which he had collected during their joint travels abroad. In this meeting he also said one more thing that was totally unnecessary and out of place- that what he had was not anything like those allegations raised by one Ms. Swapna Suresh against the Chief Minister and his family and what he had in his hands was an atom bomb he could detonate anytime at will. That's the thing- the Chief Minister wanted to give Ms. Swapna Suresh an answer which he had been holding back for a long time repressing bile, and deputed Sabu to deliver that answer to her and the people of Kerala for him. Was it really any answer that Sabu gave for the chief minister against the very severe allegations against him and his family? The evidence and statements Ms. Swapna delivered in courts were irrefutable, and convincing as far as people are concerned, so the chief minister asked Sabu to put in the picture that what she had was nothing compared to what he had. Even though there may be many things unspeakable about the chief minister family in his hands, the people know Sabu does not have the courage to reveal them either in court or before the media as that woman did. There was no point in denying the evidence she revealed, so the chief minister as part of his deception wanted to make it public through someone that there were other allegations and graver evidence elsewhere, in other people’s possession.
Exactly one year before, on 12 February 2022, there was a Lamp Dousing Protest held at Kizhakkambalam. The activists of 20-20 had organized a demonstration in all the four Panchayats under their rule by turning off all lights in homes for 15 minutes in the evening, against the non-lighting of streetlights in their panchayats. While this was going on, four Marxist goons- the 20-20 accuses they were Kunnathunadu MLA one P. V. Srinijan’s goons- entered the home of one of their activists, a Dalit youth named Deepu, beat him and he died within two days. The leaders of 20-20 accused this MLA as being behind the murder. In the same year, the chief coordinator of that organization, this Mr. Sabu Jacob, donated the largest amount in India ever contributed by a single person to the Marxist Party- Thirty lakh rupees. Will any organization or political party in India do this? If he did this out of fear because he was an industrialist in Kerala, what qualification does he have to lead a political organization in the state and compete in elections? Shouldn’t he study with the Revolutionary Marxist Party- RMP- of Vadakara how to fight bravely against the Fascist and killer leadership of Marxist Party? If it was because of his ardent love and support for Marxist Party that he gave this big donation, then wasn’t he creating this martyr in his party for helping the Marxist Party to overcome some crisis of theirs?
Why did in June 2022 also Sabu Jacob try to defeat Smt. Uma Thomas in the Thrikkakkara constituency (incidentally, she won that bye election with a record majority of 25,016), wife of the late MLA P. T. Thomas, who when alive had brought out before the public the worst corruptions of Pinarayi Vijayan? Why did he vigorously rain money on the Marxist Party for them to win the Thrikkakkara by-election? Because, P. T. Thomas when alive had also brought out the severe river pollution by Sabu’s cloth companies! Where in this is the anti-Marxism of 20-20 and the anti 20-20ism of Marxist Party? Where in this is even politics? Isn't this what he is going to do again in the 2024 parliamentary elections? Isn’t his an open sponsorship by the Marxist Party? Isn't this 20-20 a launch of Pinarayi Vijayan and his Marxist Party- their political projectile? No wonder his atom bomb exploded not anywhere else but in his party!
What the people of Kerala understands from these exercises is that the central BJP gives instructions to and is running the Kerala’s Marxist Party, and the Kerala’s Marxist Party gives instructions to the 20-20. This has been going on for a long time since the appearance of Pinaraayi Vijayan as chief minister and the inception of 20-20. The BJP is in the landlord’s position at the top, the Marxist Party is the steward in the middle, and 20-20 is the slave worker on the lowest rung.
Written on: 29 February 2024 and first published on: 07 March 2024
Original article in Malayalam written on 26 February 2024 and first published on: 28 February 2024
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