The advanced state where histories cannot be rewritten anytime soon!

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 Hi friends,

           Some invicible ice blocks are much more hard to be broken than the real ice blocks! 

              When Mr, Pinarayi Vijayan won a resounding success this year to lead a successive term in Kerala as Chief Minister, a large part of it is to be attributed to the hard work put in by the health Minister K K Shailaja to contain COVID 19 crisis so that the positivity rate was one of the lowest not only in India, but around the world! Fondly known as Shailaja teacher, because she was a physics teacher before venturing into politics full time, the health ministry under her made lot of progress and put up a bold fight against Nipah virus. She gained international attention and some countries were looking her as a role model for their own fight against covid.  Compared to many other states in India, the testing, tracking, spreading awareness and educating public about following covid protocol is much more efficient in Kerala. Everybody voted her hands down and she won the majority margin even more than the Chief Minister.  Some are of the view that she is competent enough to even become a Chief Minister.  Ok, in Kerala , a woman is not going to become a Chief Minister anytime soon which can be compared to USA, where Hillary Clinton couldn't become 1st woman president and instead , the country allowed the joker Trump to become president. Subsequently,  the public were forced to swallow the bitter pills. 

           Did Shailaja madam know that there are chances she may not hold the much coveted portfolio again? Maybe. We can guess it either way! It looks like a dirty joke now , when she was allowed to contest again more for the benefit of the party than for herself. 

         The reasons given by the ruling Government like portfolios are to be rotated and new people should be given chance and that it is party's policy. But this is not easy to digest. It is beyond logical reasoning,  that a hard working lady who was saving the state from the adversity should be dropped just like that. By doing so, she has become another K R Gauriyamma  who held so many portfolios all through her life, except that of Chief Minister. If she were a man, she would have held at least 2 terms as Chief Minister.  When some of the states already have a woman chief minister in the history and Mamta Banerjee being elected 3rd time as a woman Chief Minister,  it is a shame that women like Shailaja teacher are not allowed to rise above certain point due to dirty tricks and continuing male  ego!! 

          Rest in peace, gender equality! And for Shailaja teacher, a big salute for her sincere and exemplary services during her term!


Deepa.

 


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