Six months since he rode to power based on a campaign promise that ‘all will be right’ with the LDF coalition ruling the State, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is finding it increasingly tough to stick to it.

The latest controversy involving the Law Academy Law College here, the first private law college in the State, has seen the CPI(M) veteran talk on and off at cross purposes with major coalition partner, CPI.

This is not the first time that the communist parties have sparred and it won’t be the last either, according to Kanam Rajendran, the supremo of the State CPI. He, however, shrugged off any hint of major dissent at the highest echelons of the ruling coalition.

The Academy has closed down indefinitely in view of ongoing strike by major political parties after the latter hijacked what was essentially a student-led unrest against the alleged misdemenours of its principal. The BJP went on to score some brownie points by beating the rest to the hunger strike pandal. It and the Congress believe that the CPI(M) is hand in gloves with the management, which is what has emboldened it to toy with the simmering unrest.

The lawlessness at the Academy has come at a time when the Chief Minister is trying to deal with the festering dissent in the Vigilance-wary bureaucracy. Movement of files is reported to have been badly affected with IAS officials being very careful about appending their signatures on each.

Vijayan’s reaffirming trust in Vigilance chief Jacob Thomas as late as last week has hardly helped matters.

Added to this is the protest from varied employee unions against the government’s proposal to form a Kerala Administrative Service cadre.

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