THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The political bomb hurled by CPM MLA R Selvaraj through his resignation has come as a real shot in the arm for the UDF to browbeat the Opposition, at a time when the Piravom Assembly bypoll is fast nearing. When the general impression in the state was that the contradictions in the UDF was bound to emerge sooner or later and it would have an inevitable bearing upon the government which is surviving on a razor thin majority, the unexpected development is poised to bring in a new perception politically.If the immediate fallout in the political spectrum of the resignation would be a recharged UDF testing the political waters in Piravom, the LDF and particularly a shocked CPM will have to field many unpleasant questions. The prospect of another bypoll in the state within six months is, in fact, a political breather for the UDF. Strapped with the pressures and pulls from smaller coalition partners, the emerging political situation will also turn into a relief for the leading partner, Congress. It has also become certain that the trend of factional feud attaining devastating proportions in political parties and various communities asserting as never before by throwing their weight behind individual leaders will have an unabated run in the state. If the UDF is already prone to the malaise, the LDF will also have to make compromises on these lines is also a pointer arising out of the resignation.‘Good or bad, it has already come to stay in Kerala politics,’’ Government Chief Whip and Kerala Congress leader P C George MLA said. “The disintegration of CPM is a truth and will develop in a fast pace,’’ he said. “The UDF is united and the government has no problems on majority. We don’t have to promote horse-trading. Allegations levelled against the UDF is to cover up the weaknesses of the opposition,” Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said.“It is not fair for any MLA belonging to any party to leave the organisation and quit Assembly membership as Selvaraj did. But one has to look at the reasons which prompted him to quit, which is essentially a witch-hunt and lack of democracy,” KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala said. With a professed stance of the CPM official leadership and the LDF not to respond to the overtures of the UDF MLAs, right now, it’s advantage UDF.
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