By IANS,
Thiruvananthapuram : Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan came under attack from his own aides at the Communist Party of India-Marxist’s (CPI-M) state committee meeting here Friday for violating the party’s discipline, sources said.
CPI-M sources said that known Achuthanandan aides like state Minister for Labour P.K. Gurudasan, Fisheries Minister S. Sarma and former Rajya Sabha member Chandran Pillai critisised the chief minister for his comments on the party’s relationship with People’s Democratic Party (PDP) led by Abdul Nasir Maudany.
Maudany’s wife Sufiya is 10th accused in a bus burning case of 2005 in which the main accused is T. Nazir, the self-styled south India chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba.
On Dec 16, Achuthanandan had said the CPI-M will have no relationship with the PDP and the tie-up in the past also should not have taken place.
The statement came a few days after state CPI-M secretary Pinarayi Vijayan defended the party’s tie-up with the PDP in the May 2009 Lok Sabha polls.
The CPI-M in Kerala has been besieged with bitter factionalism between two groups led by Achuthanandan and Vijayan ever since it came to power as a part of the Left Democratic Front in 2006.