THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The CPI(M) State committee has said that the party's list of candidates for the coming Assembly election has been approved unanimously.

In a statement here late Thursday evening, the CPI(M) State committee accused a section of the media of having given exaggerated reports about a crisis in the party in connection with selection of candidates for the coming Assembly election. The CPI(M) State committee had approved the preliminary list of party candidates after discussions at various levels. Party district committees and constituency-level committees would now discuss it before finalisation, the statement added.

The CPI(M) State committee called upon party cadres and sympathisers to reject the media campaign alleging that there were divergent views in the party over who should head the party if the LDF won the election. The CPI(M) always gave importance to parliamentary and non-parliamentary work and the same has been done in the present instance as well. The CPI(M) State committee said the decision of the committee was to depute majority of the leaders of the party to engage themselves in organisational and agitational activities under the leadership of V.S. Achuthanandan and Pinarayi Vijayan, as another section entered the election fray as part of the Left Democratic Front (LDF). Only a working class movement like the CPI(M) would be able to adopt such a position, it said.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail