THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Speculation about CPM central committee member and LDF convenor EP Jayarajan preparing to join BJP flared up on polling day in Kerala after the politician admitted to meeting the saffron party’s state in-charge Prakash Javadekar.
Jayarajan said in Kannur on Friday that he didn’t discuss politics with Javadekar when they met at his son’s apartment on his grandchild’s birthday recently. “He (Javadekar) was passing through when he dropped by for a friendly chat. TG Nandakumar (the alleged middleman) was with him. Could I have asked him to get out of our house?”
The CPM veteran said Javadekar did try to broach politics, but he cut him short. “I discouraged him by saying I am not interested in it.”
CM Pinarayi Vijayan advised his senior colleague to be “cautious” about who he was being seen with. “There is nothing wrong in Jayarajan meeting any rival politician. But the presence of a suspicious middleman should have been avoided. Jayarajan should have been vigilant,” the CM said.
Dismissing talk about Jayarajan cosying up to BJP, Vijayan said that was too far-fetched an assumption to be taken seriously. “Jayarajan is a committed communist who has suffered much. A rival group has been working against him for years.”
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