New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram: The long-delayed sacking from the CPI-M of three staff members of Kerala's Leader of Opposition VS Achuthanandan was effected on Sunday at the two-day politburo and central committee meeting of the party in New Delhi.
Those booted out were Achuthanandan's press secretary K Balakrishnan, additional private secretary VK Sasidharan and personal assistant A Suresh -- all were found to be leaking classified information about the deliberations of the 2008 Coimbatore Party Congress to the media in February 2010.
With the decision, Achuthanandan's arch-rival and Communist party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan appears to have the last laugh after the former did his best to forestall the decision.
On Dec 30 2012, the state committee of the party where Vijayan has a huge majority took the decision to oust the three but the veteran took up this issue with the national leadership and managed to get it delayed till now....
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05:13 AM, May 13, 2013
Unfazed by the organisational consequences, CPM stalwart VS Achuthanandan on Wednesday said he was dropped from the party politburo a few years back for telling the truth about a corruption case in which state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan was facing inquiry. ...
01:55 PM, Jan 30, 2013
A court on Thursday posted to February 5 a petition by Opposition leader in the Kerala Assembly VS Achuthanandan seeking to hear his views while considering the report into the allegations by KA Rauf, a businessman, in the ice cream parlour sex scandal case. ...
01:05 AM, Jan 18, 2013
In a virtual rejection of CPM state committee's charge against his three personal aides, party stalwart VS Achuthanandan asserted they had not done anything wrong warranting expulsion. ...
01:06 AM, Jan 05, 2013
Veteran CPM leader V S Achuthanandan, who is the prime accused in a land controversy, on Thursday got reprieve when a single-judge bench of the high court quashed the FIR -- but the state government decided to go in appeal. ...
03:23 PM, Dec 06, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Governor H R Bhardwaj has suspended state Information Commissioner K Natarajan for allegedly intervening in the land-gift case involving CPM stalwart V S Achuthanandan. Action against Natarajan, a former DIG of police, was taken on the basis of the recommendation made by the state Government following a police probe which came across evidence to corroborate the charge that the Information Commissioner had urged a police official investigating the...
01:31 PM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram: The CPM on Sunday once again pledged support to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu -- though with a safety audit. The move has come as a setback to veteran Kerala leader V.S. Achuthanandan who is against the plant. "Yes, Achuthanandan has taken a different position but there is no question of reviewing our party decision on this issue which was taken at our party congress...
09:20 AM, Oct 15, 2012
Aluva: Opposition Leader V S Achuthanandan on Friday lashed out at senior CPM leader M M Lawrence for continued criticism against him. Making personal remarks against Lawrence, Achuthanandan warned the former not to force his hand to reveal further truths. Lawrence is an individual who admitted his wife and daughter to a mental asylum. His second daughter came to me while I was the Chief Minister seeking help to rescue...
11:43 AM, Sep 22, 2012
Kudankulam: Former Kerala chief minister VS Achuthanandan, who was on his way to join the Kudankulam protest at the nuclear reactor site, has been stopped. The police stopped him at Kalikavil near the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border. The senior Kerala CPM leader was not allowed to proceed to Kudankulam by the police. Meanwhile, PMANE activist SP Udayakumar's wife Meera has appeared in a Valliyoor court. The anti-nuke activist was summoned by...
11:19 AM, Sep 18, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Communist veteran and former chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan on Monday asked both the central and Kerala governments to come clean on the proposed neutrino observatory coming up in the state's Idukki district and contiguous Theni in Tamil Nadu. The observatory, to study effects of the neutrino - an electrically neutral, sub-atomic particle - is coming up under a joint collaboration between the US department of nuclear energy and the...
06:13 PM, Sep 17, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: An aggressive Oommen Chandy came down heavily on Opposition Leader V S Achuthanandan for what he termed as negative approach and levelling charges after boycotting the all-party meet on Emerging Kerala 2012. The Chief Minister also flayed his predecessor for seeking clarifications on three specific projects and presented documents to prove that the former Chief Minister himself had put his signature on the same projects. Chandy said that Achuthanandans...
05:08 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Tripunithura: Opposition Leader V S Achuthanandan has criticised the right-wing politicians for the misuse of religion for political gains. He stated that the tendency of communal forces to interfere in the state administration would hamper the spirit of democracy. He was inaugurating the Chathayam day celebrations organised jointly by the Thekkumbagom branch of SNDP Yogam and Sree Narayana Dharmaposhini Sabha here on Friday. The Opposition Leader opined that one of...
12:08 PM, Sep 01, 2012
Kochi: Former Kerala chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan said on Friday that the ongoing vigilance case against him for alleged misuse of office to transfer land in Kasargode district to a relative is baseless. The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader said the case was foisted on him by the Oommen Chandy government. "This case is a non-issue. It was not me who gave the land; the land transfer was done...
04:46 PM, Aug 17, 2012
Kochi: A day after veteran leader V S Achuthanandan reportedly sent a letter to the politburo, the CPM leadership repeatedly made it clear that disciplinary action would be taken against those who do not fall in line. The public statements by Achuthanandan against the party leadership, followed by the statements by senior leaders T K Hamza and M M Mani, had brought to the fore the lack of unity within...
02:59 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Left organisations staged demonstrations in the city on Thursday and burned Electricity Minister Aryadan Mohammed's effigy in protest against the power tariff hike. Opposition Leader V S Achuthanandan demanded a roll-back of the tariff hike and urged the government to subsidise the burden on small and medium consumers. He said in a statement that the steep hike effected with retrospective effect could not be justified. He alleged sinister motives...
01:20 PM, Jul 27, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Veteran CPM leader V S Achuthanandan, who has been let off with a public censure by the party central committee, has offered to admit certain lapses which have pushed the party into a difficult situation. But he would continue to fight the rightist aberrations of the state party leadership, according to CPM sources. This became clear on Tuesday, the second day of the two-day state committee meeting here. The...
12:01 PM, Jul 25, 2012
Malappuram: An Eranadan joke has turned costly for CPM leader and former minister T K Hamsa with the CPM central committee directing the state committee to take action against him for his lurid comments about senior party leader V S Achuthanandan. The impromptu speech made by Hamsa at Valanchery in the district on May 22 landed him in deep trouble, though party secretary Pinarayi Vijayan had not taken his comments...
12:49 PM, Jul 24, 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: In a setback to the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) government in Kerala, the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered it to continue monitoring the infamous ice cream parlour sex case that involved top political leaders within the coalition. The apex court's directive came after former Kerala CM and Left leader VS Achuthanandan approached it asking that the Kerala HC keep at the case since it involved high-profile politicians. In...
01:22 PM, Jul 05, 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
