Monitoring Indian Communists - 2

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Cultural mafia destroying Kerala<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The CPI(M) as part of its drive to establish cultural hegemony over all institutions in the state are trying to smoke out Dr Radhakrishnan and to install some card holding party workers to the post of Vice Chancellor. Since Dr Radhakrishnan is a scholar who will not toe the lines of AKG Centre, the party wants a servile like Panikker to occupy the VC's post. The CPI(M) led government has already appointed party workers and hangers on as chairmen and presidents of various cultural institutions. Film actor Murali, who contested the 1999 Lok Sabha election as a CPI(M) candidate from Alappuzha, is the new chairman of the Kerala Sangeet Nataka Academi. Kerala Kalamandalam, the pioneer institute established by poet Vallathol Narayana Menon too has been usurped by the CPI(M). The new chairman is none other than ONV Kurup, a film lyricist.

Education Minister M A Baby finds it difficult to replace Jancy James, the vice-chancellor of the Mahatma University at Kottayam since she belongs to the powerful Christain community. Though there are so many allegations of partiality and nepotism against Jancy James, she continues to have the last laugh because of the appeasement policies of the CPI(M).
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