CPI(M) is under pressure due to senior leader’s meeting with BJP leader Prakash Javadekar

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Initially, Jayarajan told the media in Kannur on Thursday, April 25, “Everything is a blatant lie. No such incident had taken place”.

But, he later admitted that Nandakumar and Javadekar had paid an unplanned visit to his son’s house in Thiruvananthapuram on March 5, 2023. He stressed that the meeting was brief and that he was quite surprised by the visit. He claimed that there was no political discussion. “When a former Union minister comes to my house, how can I ask him to leave?” Jayarajan asked.

He said that the UDF had created this controversy before the elections to damage the lead achieved by the LDF in the general elections in the state.

Downplaying the incident, Javadekar said on 27 April that he had met various political leaders and wanted to know whether meeting Jayarajan was a crime. “I meet a lot of people. Is it a crime? What’s wrong in it?” asked Javadekar, who was the BJP’s Kerala in-charge for the general election. (However, he had met Jayarajan just five days earlier, on April 22. Had refused to meet.)

Unusually for the Left, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan publicly condemned Jayarajan after details of the meeting emerged: “Jayarajan should have been more cautious,” Vijayan said on Friday, 26 April.

However, it seemed he also wanted to minimize the possibility of defection. Vijayan claimed that Jayarajan maintains good relations with most people and is not particularly careful about whom he meets.

However, political analysts have said that this public rebuke indicated tensions within the party leadership.

On the other hand, supporting the LDF convenor, CPI(M) leader MV Jayarajan on Saturday, April 27, said that the controversy was created by the Congress party to hide the fact. their The leaders who were joining BJP.