THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The group rivalry in the state BJP has intensified with the V Muralidharan faction training guns on party president Kummanam Rajasekharan for soft-pedalling on the medical college scam and fake receipt printing issue. The annual ‘parivar baitak’ to be held on Saturday and Sunday at Kozhikode under the leadership of RSS pranta pracharak Hari Krishna Kumar will chalk out an action plan to resolve factionalism in the state unit.
Muralidharan loyalists have accused state committee member Mohanan and a zonal committee office-bearer of printing over 140 receipt books of 25 leaves each from a printing press at Vadakara in 2014. They had also printed flex boards costing `1.50 lakh . However, Mohanan had not paid the amount due to the printing press, according to the faction.
Following this, the woman BJP supporter who runs the press had lodged a complaint with the BJP state leadership. Consequently, state secretary B Gopalakrishnan probed the matter and the accused duo were forced to remit the money collected.
Meanwhile, Sasikumar, a teacher at an unaided college in Kuttiyadi, who had accused the BJP leaders of collecting Rs15,000 using fake receipt had to face the wrath of the party’s local leadership.
Sasikumar was ousted from the college reportedly at the behest of the BJP local leadership. There are reports of the CPM sending feelers to Sasikumar.
A top BJP source on condition of anonymity told Express the party has taken note of the efforts by a section of the brass to create a wedge in the state unit. “There are even efforts to sully Kummanam’s reputation by levelling allegations those close to him are engaged in corruption,” sources said.
The BJP national leadership and the RSS are learnt to have insisted Kummanam should go ahead with the measures to rid the party’s state unit of undesirable elements. At the same time, there have been efforts from other quarters to contain the factional divide by settling the issues amicably.
Besides Kummanam, former BJP state chiefs , four state general secretaries and two organising secretaries along with the office-bearers of other parivar outfits are scheduled to attend the baitak.