KOCHI: Bahujan Samajwadi Party president Kanshi Ram left Kerala a disappointed man last week after his whirlwind visit to the State to gauge how fertile the Kerala soil would be to his brand of politics that draws sustenance from mobilization of backward castes and religious minorities The UP messiahs much-awaited tryst with Gowri wasn’t much of an event either. For him it was disappointing to find that she had not even begun to feel the waters of backward caste Politics which he professes let alone deciding on the plunge
Kanshi Rams categorical stand that Kerala is not type for a third front must be perplexing to M.K.Raghavan the main votary Of the front who has been instrumental in bringing him to Kerala.
Concerned by the press on the courtyard of the Gowris Alappuzha residence immediately after their meeting Kanshi Ram gave the impression of one still struggling with the basics of Kerala politics.
He still has to learn for example how removed Minister for Cooperatives M.K.Raghavan is politically from SNDP leaders M.K. Raghavan.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 11, 1994
