Achuthanandan rejects party charge against personal aides
By PTI - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
04th January 2013 07:40 PM
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"My view is that they (personal staff) have not committed any mistake. I have conveyed this to the party's central committee," Achuthanandan said in reply to queries at a press meet. Express photo
In a virtual rejection of
CPI-M's state committee's charge against his three personal
aides, party stalwart V S Achuthanandan asserted they had not
done anything wrong warranting expulsion from the party.
"My view is that they (personal staff) have not committed
any mistake. I have conveyed this to the party's central
committee," he said in reply to queries at a press meet here.
In what is widely seen as yet another move to further
contain Achuthanandan, the CPI(M) state committee, headed by
his bete noire Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday decided to expel
three members of his personal staff from the party on the
charge of leaking out party information to the media.
Those against whom the action had been proposed include
Achuthanandan's Press Secretary K Balakrishnan, Personal
Assistant A Suresh and Additional Private Secretary V K
Sasidharan, who serve as his staff in his capacity as Leader
of the Opposition in the state.
Asked if he thought it was a move by his rival to weaken
his functioning as opposition leader, Achuthanandan said "I
will take my work vigorously forward", adding, "you (media)
cannot be faulted if you entertain such a doubt."
The charge against his personal staff was that they had
leaked to the media contents of a review document prepared by
the party state committee for internal circulation during the
CPI(M) congress in Coimbatore in 2008.
However, the decision has been kept in abeyance for the
central committee's ratification as Achuthanandan objected to
its implementation.
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Comments(2)
The veteran Marxist leader has just made known his views on his personal staff who face charges of leaking things to media.He has not come out against the action proposed by the party, as the reportage goes to say. It rather appears to be the bid of the media to fuel the brewing misunderstanding between Sri.V.S.Achuthanandan and the State Committee and to blow it out of proportions. On very many occasions, he occupied headlines for having taken exception to the views of the state committee. But when the party high command intervened and passed judgement, he was the last to escalate defying the diktat. On the contrary, the present CM of Kerala, openly defies the his party's diktat. The Congress party did hold brief for the bill on FDI in retail listing the merits only to be slapped with defiance by its own CM in the state.The readers are sceptic about the print media whether at all, it will take a dig at this duality as it tried in vain to expose Sri.V.S..
Posted by C.Chandrasekaran(Madurai) at 01/04/2013 23:24 Reply to this Report abuse
There is little Marxism leninism in these funny acts against an ageing vetaran who had given his life to the party and their cause.love him or hate him! U can't do both!how could these alleged documents be secret in a country like India? You have a problem with him, then you debate it openly. These things appear to be suicidal to hurt your own comrades when so much is there to do ideologically and so little is done to face your own opponents from the other side of political spectrum! May better wisdom prevail!
Posted by vellullipaayala venkataachalapathi at 01/05/2013 10:14 Reply to this Report abuse