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CPI(M) central committee begins meet on Kerala

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NEW DELHI: The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) began its two-day meeting on Saturday to find a way out of the factionalism that has affected its Kerala unit.

It was preceded by a meeting of the Polit Bureau which is reported to have considered the options to end “disunity” proposed at an earlier interaction this month.

The Polit Bureau meeting was attended by Prakash Karat, Sitaram Yechury, M.K. Pandhe, Brinda Karat, Biman Bose, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, S. Ramachandran Pillai and Manik Sarkar.

CPI (M) State Secretary P. Vijayan and Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan have had serious differences for quite some time.

With the earlier suspension of both leaders from the Polit Bureau not ending the infighting and the Left Democratic Front performing poorly in the Lok Sabha elections, the Polit Bureau met here for two days focusing exclusively on the Kerala problem.

“The Polit Bureau discussed the organisational issues related to the party’s Kerala unit. It decided to convene a meeting of the Central Committee on July 11-12 to consider the proposals of the Polit Bureau,” said its statement after the meeting earlier this month.

At its meeting in June, the Central Committee blamed the party’s poor show in the Lok Sabha elections in Kerala to disunity and noted that “the public controversies that erupted in the LDF on the eve of the Lok Sabha elections conveyed an impression in the minds of the people that the LDF was disunited and fighting each other.”

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