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CPI(M) Polit Bureau to meet State-level bodies

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March 24 meeting to ensure that party's decisions are fully implemented

Prakash Karat says the party will face the polls unitedly.

NEW DELHI: The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Tuesday took stock of the political situation in Kerala, where certain divergences of opinion within the State party have recently spilled on to the streets, ahead of the April-May Assembly elections.

It met here for over six hours to discuss how the party should unitedly face the election so that the Left Democratic Front can be victorious.

"The Polit Bureau will meet the Secretariat and the State Committee of Kerala on March 24 to ensure that the party's decisions are fully implemented,'' party general secretary Prakash Karat told mediapersons.

He also dismissed a brief protest outside the party office here in the evening by a handful of people. "Anyone can come and protest, they are not our party members,'' he said.

Some eight people suddenly descended outside AKG Bhavan here in the evening, carrying a banner and raising slogans in support of senior leader V. S. Achuthanandan. The banner scribbled in Malayalam read: "Congratulations to VS, the champion of poor." However, after a short while, the group receded even as the police and CPI(M) workers approached them.

The Polit Bureau is understood to have discussed the situation in detail since the differences within the party have got externalised. The fact that there has been some reaction from the public was a factor the Polit Bureau took note.

The March 24 meeting, which will be the second such exercise by the Polit Bureau this month, is expected to be decisive and final.

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