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Kerala leader weakened after party meeting
Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan may have survived his faction-riddiled ruling party's triennial state conference, but indications are that he has come out weaker.
- By Akhel Mathew, Correspondent
- Published: 00:32 February 16, 2008
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan may have survived his faction-riddiled ruling party's triennial state conference, but indications are that he has come out weaker.
The official camp led by the Communist Party of india-Marxist's (CPM) state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan was widely reported to have come out stronger after the meeting that concluded on Thursday in Kottayam.
At a Cabinet briefing here yesterday, Achuthanandan apparently looked subdued. Replying to mediapersons, he toed the official line of the party as clarified by its general secretary Prakash Karat and Vijayan, He claimed that divisions in the party were rooted out following the state conference.
Observers see the conference as a run-away victory for the Vijayan camp, despite the presence of top leaders of the party's politburo. The politburo had last year briefly suspended Achuthanandan and Vijayan from the body in an attempt to curb factiontionalism in the state unit.
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