THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The standoff between the pro-CPM officers' affiliation and KSEB chairman and managing director B Ashok didn't finish on Tuesday regardless of a political understanding reached between the CPM and energy minister K Krishnankutty of the Janata Dal.
Actually, CITU nationwide secretary Elamaram Kareem needed to resort to a damage-control train after CITU state secretary K Sunilkumar publicly questioned the minister's administrative expertise. "Who's the minister and who's the chairman? If the minister doesn’t know a factor in regards to the energy division, why ought to he proceed," Sunilkumar stated and added that he was limiting his phrases to honour the ideas of coalition politics.
He was responding to Krishnankutty's remarks earlier within the day that he had no plans to carry a direct assembly with the hanging union leaders and he had requested the CMD to try this. Nonetheless, Sunilkumar later stated he didn't imply that the minister ought to hand over his portfolio.
Elamaram Kareem additionally got here out in help of the minister quickly. "It is for the CMD to carry talks with the officers’ affiliation leaders. The minister will maintain talks with them provided that the CMD fails to resolve the difficulty," he stated.