Thread by @lonelyredcurl

Those who are now outraging on behalf of Comrade Shailaja Teacher are the same ones who would have asked whether she had any qualification to be a minister when she was appointed as one in the previous government.

She doesn't share your outrage as she has clear political aims. +

Her aims are not individual glory but working for the project of a communist party. The party needs an array of new leaders with mass appeal so that a sudden vacuum won't appear when the current leaders can no longer contribute.

Hence the importance given to new faces. +

A communist party gives primary importance to its programme unlike other bourgeois parties. And the program of CPI(M) is building a left and democratic front.

Widely popular leaders who did not contest this time, such as Comrade Thomas Isaac, are sure to contribute to this. +

A better discourse than debating the supposed merit of each individual would be the representation given to women and others from marginalized communities in my opinion.

Whether you like it or not, Comrade Shailaja teacher doesn't work for your aims.

Comrade Shailaja Teacher answering leading questions by reporters and making it clear that she is just one among many who have made way for a second rung of leaders and that everything was a team effort.

She is a communist. Deal with it.

Misogynist crap from bourgeois journalists who are ready to reduce a union leader and former mayor with years of experience working for the party as someone's wife.

You are free to concern troll but atleast worry about what you sound like to others.

https://twitter.com/MathewLiz/status/1394576671299149827?s=19

Again reducing the leader of a mass youth organization which has taken the lead in peoples protests and in relief work during the current health emergency to someone's son-in-law.

And it hasn't even been one year since he got married. But go on.

https://twitter.com/jgopikrishnan70/status/1394571758955483138?s=19

Note that Comrade Shailaja Teacher will be taking over an important party position.

Don't forget that a young and efficient minister by the name of Pinarayi Vijayan stayed away from parliamentary work for nearly two decades before becoming Chief Minister.

CPI(M) has a long way to go to ensure adequate representation of all marginalized communities in positions of power.

But Shailaja Teacher stepping down as minister along with others so that new faces including women can lead is not the example of misogyny that you think it is.

Those in the replies saying Comrade Shailaja Teacher should not have had to make this sacrifice do not get that parliamentary positions are not the only positions of responsibility in a communist party.

She is a central committee member who is taking on a new role as chief whip.