Kanhangad: CPM on Tuesday alleged that the ruling Congress led UDF government was trying to destroy state funded Kudumbashree, the women's Self Help Group for poverty alleviation programme. Speaking after inaugurating a party office at Pollakkad near Kanhangad in Kasargod district, CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan alleged that UDF was allergic' towards Kudumbasree from the time it assumed office and was continuing that attitude.
By promoting pro-congress 'Janashree mission', government is trying to destroy Kudumbashree, he said. The Janashree mission is an organisation of Congress leader M M Hassan and cannot be a substitute for Kudumbashree, Vijayan said. He demanded that Rs 14.46 crore allotted to the mission by the Centre be taken back and a probe conducted in this regard.
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy had recently termed as baseless CPM charge that government was trying to destroy Kudumbashree.
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05:40 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Central Bureau of Investigation probing into the SNC-Lavalin corruption case on Monday told the CBI special court that CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan had not made any monetary benefit from the deal with SNC-Lavalin Company. The agency also gave a clean chit to former Electricity Minister and present Assembly Speaker G Karthikeyan. Stating that unnecessary interim petitions were being filed in sensational cases, the agency told the court...
12:43 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Coming down heavily on Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and the UDF Government, CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday alleged that the police were acting according to a script. The police had decided to make Jayarajan an accused in the murder case even before interrogating him. He said that the attack on P Jayarajan and T V Rajesh by Muslim League workers was also heinous. When the CPM leaders...
12:31 PM, Aug 02, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: After publicly censuring VS Achuthanandan for violating party norms, CPM's central leadership has refrained from initiating any further proceeding against the veteran leader. The Pinarayi Vijayan faction, though, is disappointed by the decision of the central committee. After their meetings in Delhi the CPM's central leaders including Prakash Karat are in Kerala to discuss the final report on Achuthanandan at the state secretariat. For now, the former Chief Minister's...
09:32 AM, Jul 24, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The latest standoff between Opposition leader V S Achuthanandan and CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan over the alleged role of the party in the murder of T P Chandrasekharan has further vitiated the strained relations. While the tit for tat between the most popular leader and most powerful leader of the party in the state is being celebrated in the media as usual, it is giving more trouble to...
11:17 AM, Jul 03, 2012
Kochi: Once again the VS faction maintained an upper hand in the CPM Ernakulam district secretariat. Two leaders involved in the controversial spy camera episode - T K Mohanan and M P Pathrose - again found a place in the secretariat. The crucial district committee meet, held on Wednesday in the presence of state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, had no option but to include two more VS loyalists in the secretariat....
11:27 AM, Jun 28, 2012
New Delhi: It is a crucial day for former Kerala chief minister VS Achutanandan as the CPM's central leadership is meeting on Saturday to decide on his fate. This, after immense pressure to act against Achutanandan comments against State Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan and for visiting the house of slain CPM rebel TP Chandrasekharan. Achutanandan had recently reiterated his stand on the issues in a letter to the party's General Secretary...
07:10 AM, Jun 09, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The CPM is likely to take disciplinary action against the former Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan for his comments on state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan. A decision is expected at the two-day meeting of the CPM Politburo and Core Committee that begins on Friday. The state secretariat had informed the central leadership about Achuthanandan's comments which openly criticised the party and violated norms. They have left it to the CPM...
12:18 PM, Jun 08, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The CPM in Kerala is scrambling to limit damage after its Idukki district chief's controversial remarks that the party kills off its political rivals. And in a first, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi slammed the CPM - a move that has been interpreted as the BJP's out-reach to Mamata Banerjee. Confessions of a CPM insider, Idukki district secretary MM Mani narrating the history of political eliminations in the state...
12:10 AM, May 28, 2012
Thrissur: Kerala Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan said on Tuesday that the CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan is trying to sabotage the TP Chandrasekharan murder case by intimidating the officials investigating the case. He was responding to Vijayan's earlier statement that the UDF government's days were numbered and that there would be some crucial changes in the sate politics after the Neyyattinkara bypoll. Speaking to reporters after inaugurating the passing-out parade...
11:42 AM, May 16, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The feud between the Communist Party of India Marxist's (CPM) two tallest leaders in Kerala - V S Achuthanandan and Pinarayi Vijayan - appears to be headed for an exciting finish, with the former now taking on not just his bete noire but the party itself. In stinging remarks, Achuthanandan on Saturday warned that party state secretary Vijayan will soon meet the fate of the once iconic Indian Communist...
12:13 PM, May 14, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: It seems that former Kerala chief minister and one of the founding members of the CPM VS Achuthanandan is likely to split the party. Achuthanandan on Saturday openly said that he did not believe that Party Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan had the last word. He also said that the CPM did not have a high command like the Congress and the Muslim League. A rift seemed to be brewing in...
03:32 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: There seems to be a rift brewing in the Kerala CPM after the brutal killing of rebel leader TP Chandrashekharan. Though a police probe is still on, many allege that Chandrashekharan's killing was orchestrated by CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan's group. Vijayan alleges that the killing is a conspiracy to tarnish the CPM and even reiterated an earlier comment that Chandrashekharan was a traitor. "A traitor is a...
09:42 AM, May 10, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Two days since Left leader TP Chandrashekharan was killed in Kerala there is still no clue about those who were behind the assassination. Sources say some CPI(M) leaders are involved in the killing of Chandrashekharan, which is being seen as the most brutal political assassination that Kerala has seen. Moments after the assassination of Revolutionary Marxist Party leader Chandrashekharan, rumours began that some CPI(M) members had a hand in...
09:46 AM, May 07, 2012
Kozhikode (Kerala): Former Kerala chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan was clearly upset on Monday after he failed to make it into the politburo of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM). Achuthanandan has been in the politburo, the CPM's highest decision making body, since 1985. "I have nothing to say," the blunt speaking politician said as he came out of the venue of the CPM leadership meet. Not one to hide his...
03:15 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The CPI(M) on Thursday urged the Centre and state governments to take immediate action to provide security to fishermen setting out to sea from Kerala shores. In a statement here, CPI-M Kerala unit secretary Pinarayi Vijayan said the incident in which a ship hit a fishing boat resulting in the death of two fishermen pointed to the "insecurity" faced by those going to sea for fishing. He said the...
04:57 AM, Mar 02, 2012
Kollam: Hitting back at CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan for his remarks against him and the party, CK Chandrappan, CPI state secretary has said that leaders should use decent and respectable language. His comment comes a day after Vijayan at the valedictory function of the CPM meet the other day criticised Chandrappan calling his 'event management' comment as petty and that no one ought to be envious because of the...
11:40 AM, Feb 12, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Pinarayi Vijayan's uninterrupted reign at the top continues, with him being re-elected on Friday as secretary of the party's Kerala unit for the fourth successive time. The election was a mere formality at the last day of the 20th edition of the CPI-M state party conference. It was in 1998, when as minister of power in the E.K. Nayanar government, Vijayan first...
03:16 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: CPM in Kerala on Monday hit back at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and AICC chief Sonia Gandhi for their alleged remarks that LDF was living in the past, saying the Front's policies were not for generating millionaires but for alleviating poverty. LDF did not believe in the "new line of Prime Minister and Gandhi of generating millionaires in the country," CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan told reporters. The Prime...
03:56 PM, Apr 11, 2011
Thiruvanathapuram: Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan on Tuesday welcomed the Kerala High Court ruling setting aside the Election Commission order restraining it from extending the scheme to provide rice at Rs 2 per kg to fresh beneficiaries. In a statement here Tuesday, Achuthanandan said Opposition leader Oommen Chandy "should apologise" to the people for allegedly trying to scuttle the scheme. The EC had in a letter to the Chief...
04:14 PM, Mar 22, 2011
