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CPI(M) deal is mysterious: MVR

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Asks if State committee endorsed it

M.V. Raghavan says the CPI(M) should take action against those responsible.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Communist Marxist Party (CMP) leader M.V. Raghavan has described the Communist Party of India (Marxist) State leadership’s arguments relating to its acceptance of Rs.2 crore from lottery tycoon S. Martin as ‘quite mysterious’ and demanded to know how the CPI(M) would return the money to an absconder.

At a news conference here on Sunday, the CMP leader said the whole issue was turning more mysterious by the day, with the CPI(M) leadership contradicting itself about how the party organ Deshabhimani accepted the money from the lott ery tycoon and how it planned to return the same. The CPI(M) must clarify whether the party State committee endorsed acceptance of the money or whether the decision was taken by State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan alone. It must also clarify how it would return the money to Mr. Martin who is absconding, he said.

Mr. Raghavan said the matter could not be dismissed lightly as one where the CPI(M) had suddenly had a prick of conscience and would return the money it had taken from someone. The leadership should take stern action against those responsible for it, be it Mr. Vijayan or Deshabhimani general manager E P. Jayarajan. If it is for the CPI(M) Central committee to take action against Mr. Jayarajan, the committee should do it as had been done by the CPI(M) Polit Bureau which decided to s uspend Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan and Mr. Vijayan from it.

He also ridiculed the decision of the CPI(M) State committee to leave the matter for inquiry by the party State secretariat. The State secretariat has been examining the issue for long. How could it come up with any new finding.”

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