THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Though the CPM and Left ministers have upped the ante against the privatisation of Trivandrum International Airport, there is a mismatch between the party’s rhetoric against the Centre and the action taken so far by the state government led by it in the privatisation process.At the same time, the airport issue has come as a blessing in disguise for the Left government to wriggle out of the current controversies faced by it, ranging from the gold smuggling case to allegations of graft in the Life Mission project. CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan’s announcement on Friday that the party would send two lakh mails to the prime minister seeking to retain the airport in the public sector and make it a people’s issue points to this.
