People's Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
No. 43
October 27, 2013
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Vol. XXXVII
No. 43 October 27, 2013 |
KERALA NEWSLETTER
LDF to Siege CM’s Residence
from Dec 9
N
THE
state committee of the
Left Democratic Front (LDF) decided on October 21, 2013 to
launch an indefinite
massive siege before Cliff House, the official residence of
chief minister from
December 9, demanding
resignation
of the solar scam tainted Oommen Chandy. The roadmap of grand
siege will be
finalised in another meeting of the LDF, to be held on
November 18.
The
information came from Vaikom
Vishwan, the LDF convener, at a press conference at
Thiruvananthapuram, the
state capital.
The
siege was decided upon
as the chief minister has reneged on his promise of
instituting an investigation
in the solar panel case. One recalls that the chief minister
had given the promise
to get the scam probed by a sitting judge of the High Court,
when a grand siege
was organised
around the State Secretariat
in August. Oommen Chandy now claims that no sitting judge of
the High Court is
available for conducting a probe.
The
meeting, presided over
by opposition leader V S Achuthanandan, also decided to
organise two campaign
jathas as a harbinger of the Cliff House siege. Both the
jathas will begin on
November 1 and
conclude on November
13. The northern jatha, led by deputy leader of opposition
Kodiyeri Balakrishnan,
will start from Uppala in Kasargode district. CPI state
secretary Pannian
Raveendran will inaugurate the northern jatha which will cover
Kasargode,
Kannur, Wayanad,
The
southern jatha, led by
CPI legislative party leader C Divakaran, will be inaugurated
by opposition
leader V S Achuthanandan at Eranakulam. The jathas will cover
Idukki,
Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, Alappuzha and Kollam districts and
culminate at
Thiruvananthapuram.
Vaikom
Vishwan also added
that the picketing and mass contact programmes would continue.
CPI(M) TO
PLENUM AT PALAKKAD
THE
Kerala unit of the
CPI(M) is going to organise its state plenum November at
Palakkad on November
27, 28 and 29.
The
plenum will be held as
an extended state committee meeting. A
massive rally will also be held at Palakkad on the last day.
All-India leaders
will attend the plenum.
MUSIC DIRECTOR
K RAGHAVAN NO MORE
VETERAN
musician and
legendary film music director K Raghavan Master, who gave a
new identity to
Malayalam music, passed away at a private hospital at
Thiruvananthapuram on October 19 morning.
He was 99. He was admitted to the
Raghavan
set a new trend
in Malayalam film music with the release of the 1954 movie Neelakuyil. In a career spanning over four
decades, he scored music
for more than 60 Malayalam films, and many of his compositions
remain ever green
classics of Malayalam. He always kept a good rapport with the
Left and
progressive forces in Kerala.
Born at
Thalassery in
Kannur district, to M Krishnan and Narayani in 1913, his first
movie was Pullimaan
in 1951. Raghavan infused the
folk element into Malayalam film music and his rustic melodies
replaced the
then prevailing trend of imitation of popular Hindi tunes of
the day.
In 1997
he bagged the J C
Daniel Lifetime Achievement Award from the government of
Kerala and was also
honoured with Padmashri in 2010.
Raghavan
Master entered
the Guinness book of records as the oldest music composer ever
to have worked
in films after the new Mammootty movie Balyakalasakhi.
His song for the movie Thamarapoonkkavil
Thamasikkunnole was rendered by K J Yesudas.
