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MVR pained by crisis in CPI(M)

Staff Reporter

ALAPPUZHA: Communist Marxist Party (CMP) leader M.V. Raghavan has said that he was deeply pained by the crisis that the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in the State was going through.

“I, along with several others, am among those who sacrificed and suffered a lot, including the brutality of the police, to nurture this party in its earlier days.

“The present crisis that the CPI(M) in Kerala is going through therefore hurts me a lot,” the veteran Communist leader told reporters here on Friday.

Alleging that the CPI(M)’s leaders like Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury had no experience of fighting for a movement or party, Mr. Raghavan said these leaders were “campus recruitments”.

He also said that “no State Secretary of the party had faced so many allegations as Pinarayi Vijayan is facing now”.

“The CPI (M) State Secretariat and committee should be dismantled and an organising committee should be set up instead,” he said.

In a separate press conference, Bharatiya Janata Party State president P.K. Krishnadas alleged that the CPI (M) was becoming a “mafia party”.

The details of financial dealings of the party with “Mafioso” and the assets of CPI(M)’s top leaders had to be investigated, he said.

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