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CPI(M) not ready to take action: CMP

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Communist Marxist Party (CMP) leader M.V. Raghavan has said that the CPI (M) central leadership and party general secretary Prakash Karat are hesitant to take action against Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan because they do not want to suffer a loss as in the case of Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee.

In a statement here on Sunday, Mr. Raghavan said that if one were to go by the party’s functioning styles, disciplinary action should have been taken against Mr. Achuthanandan who had taken a confrontationist stand on the calculation that the party would not move a finger against him in the backdrop of the coming Lok Sabha elections. He said that the conflicting statements of the Chief Minister and party State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan clearly indicated that schism, which the party leadership claimed had ended with its Kottayam State conference, was returning with vehemence in the party.

The mutual recriminations expose the intensity of schism in the party, he said.He wanted both leaders to clarify whether the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government would be prepared to take back the land that the government sold to big landlords and estate owners and redistribute it to the landless poor. He interpreted the current recriminations as a struggle for the Chief Minister’s chair. The main issue that needs serious consideration is how the people can be saved from this power struggle and Mr. Karat should clarify whether the party leadership was capable of making such a move.

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