New Delhi (PTI):
Intending to put an end to the infighting in its Kerala unit, the CPI(M) on Sunday removed its senior most leader and Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan from the Polit Bureau for violating organisational principle and discipline.
He would continue as the Chief Minister as well as a member of the party central committee.
Mr. Achuthanandan's prime detractor and Kerala party secretary Pinarayi Vijayan escaped unscathed as the Central Committee merely referred to the SNC Lavalin contract case involving him and said he was "not involved in any corrupt practice whatsoever."
After a two-day meeting to discuss the issue, the Central Committee authorised the Politburo to take "necessary steps" to implement its decisions on the ongoing factionalism.
It asked the Kerala party unit to "unify the entire party and go to the people with the political and organisational tasks which have been spelt out in the review of the Lok Sabha elections," a party statement said.
The infighting has heavily cost the CPI(M) in its stronghold of Kerala where the number of its seats in Lok Sabha came down from 16 to four in the last general elections.
The party said it would fight the Lavalin case, in which Vijayan is being prosecuted by CBI, both politically and legally.
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