Resignation according to my will:Selvaraj

 Friday, March 9, 2012: CPM MLA Selvaraj at a news conference at Neyyattinkara today said that he had decided to put in his resignation pained by factionalism in the party and on being targeted by a section in the district party leadership.
He had received no relief despite complaining to the State leadership.
“Normally, factionalism would end once party conferences are over, but it is going on even now. Criticism at all conferences have been focused on a single individual,. Selvaraj said.
With Mr. Selvaraj’s resignation, the strength of the LDF in the Kerala Assembly has fallen to 67 in a House of 140, with a byelection due in the Piravom Assembly constituency on March 17. He had defeated Congress strongman Thampanoor Ravi by 6,702 votes in the Neyyattinkara constituency in the 2011 May Assembly elections