V.S refutes Pinarayi’s remarks on TP Chandrasekharan

Wednesday, May 09, 2012: Opposition leader V S Achuthanandan today played down the remark of CPM State Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan that former CPM leader T P Chandrasekharan had been disloyal to the party.
Talking to mediapersons, he said that it’s only Pinarayi’s opinion not of party’s.
‘It is quite normal that those leaving the party due to differences in opinion and other reasons return to the party slowly when they want. If they are not willing to come back, let them work as independent parties’, he added.
Chandrasekharan, once a prominent CPI(M) leader in the party stronghold Onjiyam in Kozhikode district, was expelled a few years ago after he fell out with the leadership.
He later joined the RMP floated by CPI(M) rebels and wrested control of Onjiyam village panchayat, ending decades-old rule of the CPI(M).