CPM moves in as Cong crumbles in Wayanad, offers aid to Vijayan's kin

WITH Congress caught up in its own storm in Wayanad, the CPM seems to be capitalising on the former's silence over the string of tragedies that have rattled the UDF stronghold.

- LAKSHMI ATHIRA @Kalpetta

CPM state secretariat member M V Jayarajan on Sunday visited the families of both N M Vijayan and Jose Nalladam — two Congress leaders who died by suicide amid allegations of neglect by their own party — while the Congress leaders were conspicuously absent.