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CPI(M) revises delegates list

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Tuesday revised its list of delegates from Thiruvananthapuram district for the party’s State conference to be held at Kottayam from February 11 to 14.

The list was revised at a reconvened meeting of the party’s district conference delegates held at the AKG Centre here. The meeting took hardly a few minutes for approving a 36-member panel presented by the party’s district secretary Kadakampally Surendran.

Eleven party men who had pressed a poll at the district conference held in the last week of December to get into the earlier list did not find their names in the new list. They were replaced by those whom they pushed out of a “consensus panel” through contest.

The reconvened meeting followed the party Polit Bureau’s intervention to correct what was perceived as factionalism in the poll that eliminated 11 members from the “consensus panel.”

The Polit Bureau had directed the party’s State unit to call this meeting for the “correction exercise.”

The complaint was that several lower level units and feeder organisations of the party were left unrepresented in the list of delegates.

Polit Bureau member V.S. Achuthanandan had reportedly taken up this matter with the party’s national leadership as a case of “selective elimination” that went against the organisational principles of the party.

Senior leaders including the party’s State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan were present when the district conference delegates met for the correction exercise.

Mr. Vijayan explained to them the circumstances that had led to the reconvened meeting, sources said.

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