Friday, March 09, 2012: Tension prevails in Neyyattinkara and nearby areas following the resignation of R Selvaraj, CPM MLA from Neyyattinakara due to alleged factional feud in CPM.Violence was reported when a group of CPM activists pelted stones and glass bottles towards the Neyyattinakara Rest house where Selvaraj was declaring his resignation through a press conference here on Friday morning.
Soon after the stone pelting the CPM activists destroyed Selvaraj’s cutouts and flex boards erected outside the Neyyattinakara Rest house. Selvaraj today said that he had decided to put in his resignation pained by factionalism in the party and on being targeted by a section in the district party leadership.
He had received no relief despite complaining to the State leadership.
“Normally, factionalism would end once party conferences are over, but it is going on even now. Criticism at all conferences have been focused on a single individual, Selvaraj said.
He said that he considers it better to commit suicide than joining the UDF. He said he quit the MLA post because he was not interested in continuing in the post after quitting from his party, the CPM.
With Selvaraj’s resignation, the strength of the LDF in the Kerala Assembly has fallen to 67 in a House of 140, with a byelection due in the Piravom Assembly constituency on March 17.
He had defeated Congress strongman Thampanoor Ravi by 6,702 votes in the Neyyattinkara constituency in the 2011 May Assembly elections.
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