Che not an icon of CPM alone: Pinarayi

KANNUR: “Che Guevara is not an icon of the CPM alone, and it is a feeling held close to the hearts of the youths everywhere,” said CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan  justifying the appearance of flex boards showing Hollywood actor Benicio Del Toro who played the role of the guerilla leader in ‘Che’, the two-part biopic came out in 2009, in connection with the scheduled Party Congress of the CPM in Kozhikode.The New Indian Express had carried a story on Thursday about the flex boards appeared at several places in Kozhikode as part of the campaign for the CPM Party Congress carrying the Hollywood actor’s picture, which presumably was a case of mistaken identity.The explanation given earlier by A Pradeepkumar MLA was that it could be a mistake made by the local cadre of the party who took the picture from some website. But  Pinarayi said that several youth organisations were using the pictures of Che Guevara and it had nothing to do with the CPM. To a pointed question whether this could be the result of outsourcing the party work, Pinarayi said that his party had no need to outsource any of its activities.