Setback for VS as CPI(M) panel rejects his letter

Veteran CPI(M) leader V.S. Achuthanandan has suffered a setback with the CPI(M) central committee ‘strongly disapproving’ his decision to boycott the party State conference in Alappuzha last month taking exception to the party State secretariat resolution that virtually branded him a ‘renegade.’

The party central committee on Sunday also rejected his letter registering his dissent to the contents of the organisational report presented at the State conference, particularly his criticism of the State leadership on issues such as the T.P. Chandrasekharan’s murder.

Party general secretary Prakash Karat told reporters in New Delhi after the meetings of the Polit Bureau and the central committee that the central committee had discussed the issues raised by Mr. Achuthanandan in his letter earlier and arrived at its own conclusions.

The State conference itself had discussed and resolved some of the other issues relating to the State party raised by Mr. Achuthanandan.

None of these justified Mr. Achuthanandan’s boycott of the conference, he said.