THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) is likely to get a shot in the arm, by widening the unrest in the UDF over the court episode starring JSS general secretary A N Rajan Babu and SNDP Yogam general secretary Vellappally Natesan. A circuitous route via JSS founder leader K R Gowri Amma is being laid in front of Rajan Babu, it is reliably learnt.
Still pinning his wish to remain in the UDF, Rajan Babu is also scanning at the prospect of being pushed into a corner in the UDF for a forced exit. “In that case, I have to think over. One thing I can tell you clearly is that I will never move to the BDJS led by Vellappally Natesan,” he told Express. “Gowri Amma is in touch with me,” he disclosed further.
There were reports that Rajan Babu was toying with the idea of taking his band of supporters in the JSS banner, and aligning with the SNDP’s political outfit.
Whether the UDF is going to dump Rajan Babu or allow to leave the front on his own is going to be a matter of only a few days. Severing his SNDP legal counsel status for the sake of continuing in the UDF and averting another split in the JSS, is however, only a last option for him in the present circumstances.
How the LDF could court Rajan Babu so soon, even through an indirect entry, after snipping for his ties with Vellappally may also become a matter of political debate in the run-up to the Assembly polls, if he moves to the side of Gowri Amma.
The JSS general secretary had drawn flak during the time of launching the BJDS by the SNDP, as it became clear that he was instrumental in framing the constitution of the new political outfit under the canopy of the BJP. He had insisted that he was only giving his counsel as his legal firm was handling the affairs related to the SNDP Yogam. “We had gone by his clarifications then and didn’t precipitate it. It cannot be that way always,” V D Satheesan told ‘Express.’
Rajan Babu has made it clear that the UDF is free to take any decision it deemed fit in his case but there is no question of abdicating his legal adviser role for the SNDP Yogam. “If a senior Congress leader like Kapil Sibal could argue on behalf of bar owners in the bar case, which had rocked the Congress-led UDF Ministry and even led to the resignation of a minister, what’s wrong in my act. Moreover, I’ve not signed any vakkalath for Vellappally or even stepped into the court room,” Rajan Babu told ‘Express.’