Senior CPI(M) leader V.S. Achuthanandan has said that he had never run after positions during his seven-and-a-half decades of public life.
In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Mr. Achuthanandan said he had not entered public life hoping for any position.
His movement had bestowed on him several positions and he had accepted them with pride. He would continue working among the people, he said.
Denies reportsMr. Achuthanandan rebutted news reports that he had handed over to CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury a note containing the positions that he would love to have.
“Although I have not much formal education, I can read and write both Malayalam and English. I also have the freedom to say anything directly to any leader of the great movement of which I am part of or give anything in writing. I don’t have to give any note to Mr. Yechury when the new government is being sworn in,” he said.
‘Strange story’The veteran said he and Mr. Yechury had met all by themselves and along with others several times on the day and both before and after that. If he had wanted, he could have handed any note at one of these meetings.
He did not know how to describe those who had come up with the strange story that he had chosen the swearing-in ceremony to hand over the note to Mr. Yechury, who had himself stated only that diverse views have come up and that these have been handed over.
He had never said that he (Mr. Achuthanandan) had handed over a note seeking any specific post.
Mr. Achuthanandan, who moved out of the official residence of the Leader of the Opposition on Wednesday, said reports that he delayed shifting to a rented house in the hope that some official posting would come his way were baseless. Those who had put out such reports should have contacted him or his staff members to check the veracity of the report.
