K.E. Ismail slams his exclusion from CPI State meet

Veteran CPI leader K.E. Ismail has voiced his discontent after being left out of the invitation list for the party’s State conference being held in Alappuzha.

Mr. Ismail has demanded to know why he was excluded from the CPI State conference despite being a regular attendee for nearly five decades.

A seasoned party leader, Mr. Ismail has a remarkable track record of attending every CPI State conference since 1968. He was once considered the public face of the CPI in Kerala. He stood by the party through both triumphs and tribulations.

According to Mr. Ismail, his decades-long dedication to the party has been met with injustice and exclusion.

Mr. Ismail expressed that he was not merely disappointed, but deeply aggrieved by his exclusion from the party’s State conference. He said he never faced any allegations of corruption, and he lived his life as a communist. He said he did not know why he was still being sidelined.

Earlier, he had been kept away from the CPI Palakkad district conference held at Vadakkanchery.

It is learned that he was excluded from the State conference considering the suggestions of the party’s Palakkad district leadership.

Mr. Ismail recently visited Valiya Chudukadu in Alappuzha, a historic burial ground where prominent Communist leaders like P. Krishna Pillai and V.S. Achuthanandan found their final resting place.