The CPI-M Central Committee has foundserious fault with party veteran V S Achuthanandan for openly attacking thestate leadership and rejected his contention that he has been fighting the"rightist deviations" of the state unit.
The July 22 CC's resolution said Achuthanandan's stand thathis differences with the state leadership pertained to "political andideological issues had no basis whatsoever."
On the contrary, his recent statements smacked of factionaltendency, the resolution published today by the party's official organ"Deshabhmiani" said.
Citing some highly critical statements made by the seniorleader against the state set-up controlled by his arch foe Pinarayi Vijayan,the resolution said these amounted to hurling accusations at the leadership inpublic and weakening CPI(M).
It noted that Achuthanandan himself had"self-critically" admitted that he committed a mistake by comparingVijayan with the late S A Dange, who presided over the split in the undividedComminst Party of India in 1964.
Similarly, he also agreed that he should not have visitedthe home of the murdered Marxist rebel and RMP leader T P Chandrasekharan onthe day of the assembly by-election from Neyyattinkara (which the CPI-M lost toCongress).
The CC resolution also said the controversial speech byformer Idukki district secretary M M Mani that the party had eliminated itsfoes in the past also did grievous damage to the party's image.
The special CC session was held on July 21 and 22exclusively to discuss the deep divisions in the Kerala unit.
The long-running tussle between Achuthanandan and Vijayanintensified in the wake of the Chandrasekharan murder.
The senior leader had then made an unsparing attack onVijayan, holding that the state leadership should have tried to bring backrebels like Chandrasekharan, instead of castigating them as"renegades".