KOZHIKODE: CPM landed in trouble as UDF took up the statement of party’s senior leader M V Govindan Master who said that dialectical materialism is not possible in India and despite being a revolutionary party, CPM can only move forward by accepting the sentiments of believers.

UDF is trying its best to keep Sabarimala issue as an electoral topic in the public realm. M V Govindan’s statement comes in the context when the opposition is demanding to know whether CPM and the government are still holding on their earlier stand on the issue. With this, the party has got into trouble, other prominent leaders of the party are still silent on Govindan Master’s statement.

Meanwhile, mocking the statement, opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala has said, “CPM is undergoing so much change that it is drifting away from basic communist principles. When the party has abandoned communism itself, there is no wonder in Govindan Master’s statement. CPM in Kerala and communist party differs from each other like earth and the sky.”

K Sudhakran has also lashed out at Govindan Master. “The statement indicates that CPM has accepted the fact whatever they did till now are wrong. M V Govindan got enlighted right now. Those who take classes for the party has realised that dialectical materialism cannot be implemented in this country a long time back. The party should apologise to the working class,” said K Sudhakaran.

In the meantime, M V Govindan Master has come up with clarification over his statement. “I have only said the official stand of the party. I have never said to end dialectical materialism and has only pointed out the practical difficulties involved in today’s context. People of all faith should be mobilised against communalism. Those who wish to visit the temple should be allowed to do that. When the Sabarimala verdict is issued, it should be discussed with everyone,” he said.

M V Govindan issued the controversial statement while addressing the Kannur district meet of teachers’ organisation. “Dialectical materialism is not practical in India. It doesn’t have a necessary situation for that. Indian society has not risen itself to a bourgeois democracy which came up in France following the French revolution in 1798. No democratic revolution has happened in this country. Feudalism is still a reality. Many think that dialectical materialism could derive a solution to these problems. But it will not. It is not practical in this country.

“Everyone born in this country is born either as a Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Parsi. In such society materialism won’t produce any effect,” he said in the meet.