V S Achutanandan had stated that the former national and state leaderships of the party were responsible for the collapse of the LDF.
The CPI (M) state secretariat, in a resolution, said party veteran V S Achuthanandan was challenging the politburo through his statements, which are baseless and against the interest of the party.
Achuthanandan is proving again and again that he is not ready to correct his anti-party stand and an incorrigible leader, said the resolution.
The other day, VS had stated that the former national and state leaderships of the party were responsible for the collapse of the LDF. He had stated that the dissenting voice in the party should not be reckoned as factionalism.
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Referring to the opinion of state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan that election to the state secretariat was part of factionalism, Achuthanandan doubted whether Balakrishnan too was toeing the stand of his predecessor, Pinarayi Vijayan. When party polit buro denounced his observations, VS had opined that it was due to the leadership’s ignorance.
The resolution said the party decisions were taken collectively and the secretary was not functioning as.
Asking VS to surrender to the collective decisions of the party state leadership, the resolution said he should desist from making public comments against the collective decisions of the party. It said the party would not tolerate any parallel activity “to strengthen the Left” as claimed by VS. Whenever the UDF government is in crisis, VS rush to their rescue by taking anti-party stand, said the resolution.
Meanwhile, the party stood with central committee member Elamaram Kareem, who is facing graft charges. A former top executive of a public sector cement firm, in a confessional statement to the court, had stated that he had handed over a parcel of money to Kareem, a former minister, from a controversial businessman. The party said the allegation against Kareem was part of a political conspiracy to salvage the crisis-ridden UDF government.
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V S Achutanandan had stated that the former national and state leaderships of the party were responsible for the collapse of the LDF.
