PALAKKAD: Former MP S Ajayakumar has been inducted into the district committee of the CPM. The decision was reportedly taken at the district committee meeting in which CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan and state secretariat members T Sivadasa Menon and A K Balan participated.
The decision was initially reported to have been taken by the district secretariat of the CPM last week. Ajayakumar was under the surveillance of the CPM state committee ever since he was identified as a V S Achuthanandan loyalist, along with another former MP, N N Krishnadas, during the last organisational elections. The report of the district committee on Ajayakumar was that he had not deviated from the principles of the party and had not indulged in factional politics since the organisational elections.
For Ajayakumar, it was coincidental that his induction into the district committee comes a day after former CPM MP S Sivaraman had been granted Congress membership. The induction into the district committee of the CPM came as a prelude to the forthcoming elections to the local bodies where the CPM is facing dissidence from its own ranks, both in the Ottappalam and Shoranur municipalities. The path was cleared for Ajayakumar's entry into the district committee after he gained the confidence of Power Minister A K Balan and CPM central committee member E P Jayarajan. The divide between Balan and Ajayakumar worsened following the speech at Peringottukurissi where the latter had verbally attacked the former.