VS letter creates a flutter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The CPM state leadership, already at the receiving end following RMP leader Chandrasekharan’s murder, found themselves in another embarrassing situation on Sunday over a letter reportedly written by veteran leader V S Achuthanandan to CPM general secretary Prakash Karat and politburo member Sitaram Yechury.If true, the letter can be interpreted as a preemptive strike before the central committee next month.However, Achuthanandan was neither available for comment nor he denied the origin of letter.The rumoured letter demands a change at the party’s helm of affairs in the state and expresses Achuthanandan’s willingness to resign from the post of Opposition Leader.It reportedly contains strong words against the state leadership under Pinarayi Vijayan.According to sources, it demands the state secretariat and state committee to be revamped and the central secretariat to be convened at the earliest.VS points out that the rampant right deviation of the CPM made a number of comrades to leave it.He demands that the state secretariat and state committee be revamped and the central secretariat be convened at the earliest, according to sources.While Vijayan dubbed rebels as “renegades”, VS expressed his disagreement in addressing those who left the party as “renegades or traitors”. He suggests that the party should take initiatives to bring back those who quit the CPM in disagreement with the present leadership.Reaffirming his stand on RMP leader Chandrasekharan’s murder, the veteran leader cautions that the CPM will have to pay dearly if it chooses the path of “murder politics”.Most of the senior party leaders ignored the letter as a routine thing. “It has not come into my notice,” said Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, PB member and deputy leader of Opposition, while campaigning at Neyyatinkara.Though this letter does not account for an anti-party activity, some references of VS at the press conference on May 12 comparing the formation of the RMP with that of CPM could warrant an action against him.The party has convened the central committee on June 9 and 10 where Achuthanandan’s press conference could come up as a topic of discussion and this letter could add impetus to the ongoing discussion on the prevailing situation in state party in the aftermath of T P Chandrasekharan murder.