The proverb "He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon”,
advocates caution when dealing with dangerous or malevolent persons. This vigilance is needed for Catholic Bishops in Kerala as Pinrayi Vijayan, the State Secretaty of the Marxist party, considers visiting the church leaders for damage control. As the central leaders of CPM are highly skeptical about the strength of the party in Kerala presently, the visit is in the back-drop of coming Parliament election
The stand-off between the Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Catholic Church in Kerala took nasty turns several times with Pinarayi Vijayan demanding that the church to withdraw pastoral letters. The letter recommending “liberation struggle on the lines of the one in the 1950s, to liberate the education sector in Kerala, has been condemned by Pinrayi, many times. Now, after swallowing all the mischievous words, Pinrayi started squaring off with the church. I hope the church leaders are not under the grip of dementia-the memory disease.
Faced with the strong prospects of a shocking defeat in the coming Lok Sabha polls in the state Pinarayi is initiating fire-fighting exercise. The Party big bosses have convinced that the party might not get a single seat unless Pinrayi kneels down before the church leaders.
And hence this is the time for the Church make understand Pinarayi that he could always sit on the elephant top.
James Williams.
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