Achuthanandan to Contest Kerala Polls


Thiruvananthapuram, March 18 (IANS) Kerala's octogenarian chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan would be contesting the April 13 assembly elections from the Mallampuzha constituency, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) announced Friday. This follows widespread protests after reports that Achuthanandan was being denied a ticket.

"V.S. Achuthanandan will obviously be the team leader. He has always been part of the decision making process in our party... don't try to separate him," Pinnarayi Vijayan, CPI-M state secretary, said while announcing the list of candidates for the forthcoming polls.

Achuthanandan represents Mallampuzha in the current assembly.

The decision to drop the 87-year-old chief minister from the list of candidates was taken at a marathon four-hour meeting of the CPI-M's 15-member state secretariat Wednesday and was endorsed by the 81-member state committee late in the evening, party sources had said.

The controversial decision led to protests across the state.

In 2006 as well, Achuthanandan was denied a party ticket but following a huge public outcry, the national leadership had to reverse its decision. He led the Left Front's poll campaign and went on to become the chief minister.

  

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