The national media ignoring critical issues....

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We Keralites often complain about the step-motherly treatment meted out to our little state by the Central Government. Even when all the twenty MPs from our state were supporting the UPA government, the trend didn’t change. Especially when it comes to the Railways, Kerala has never got even a fair hearing so far. To my dismay, I find that it is not only the government that is ignoring my state. It is the national media as well.

 

In the era of electronic media, I often feel that the main stream news channels often ignore the significant happenings in the Kerala politics. One has to remember that Kerala has always been a social and political laboratory. From the world’s first democratically elected Communist Government to the successful coalition politics, we have always been the pioneers for others to follow. In this context, the mainstream media has failed to grasp the importance of two happenings in Kerala, this election season.

  1.  The dangerous game that the CPI(M)(read as its state general secretary Pinarayi Vjayan) is playing by choosing to accommodate Abdul Nasser Madani’s PDP in the LDF election rallies. Madani is suspected to have links with the terrorist activities which came to light when Muslim youths from Kerala were killed by the Indian Army at Jammu and Kashmir. His followers were also accused of various terror activities including the conspiracy to assassinate the former chief minister E.K.Nayanar.
  2.  The overwhelming discontent among the constituents of the CPI(M) led LDF coalition. The RSP, CPI and Janata Dal(secular) have all been frustrated by the high handedness of CPI(M) and have expressed their feeling openly. We even had the best minister of Kerala cabinet, Mathew .T.Thomas of Janata Dal(secular) resigning from the cabinet as a token of protest. The other popular and efficient minister of the cabinet, M.K.Premachandran would have resigned if his party, the RSP had not changed its decision to withdraw from the state cabinet.

 

These two incidents are ominous, not only for Kerala but for the whole nation. The significance of these occurrences could form the content of another post.

 I feel the national media has failed to analyse and understand these incidents. As usual, they are too busy highlighting and debating the deeds and misdeeds of the BJP.  I agree that Mr. Varun Gandhi’s remarks are significant, but I don’t think all other issues should be simply ignored, especially since they involve issues which are much more critical to national security and national politics.

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