Gopi Kottamurikkal says he accepts party verdict

Monday, June 25, 2012: Complying fully to the decision of the CPM to expel him from the party, former Ernakulam district committee secretary of the party, Gopi Kottamurikkal said that he accepted the party verdict with no qualms, whatsoever.
He said that he would not denounce a party that had earned him so much popularity as a politician. He also maintained that he would not claim justice was denied to him, adding whatever he had said against S. Sharma and Chandran Pillai was said with with proper sense.
However, he said that the party commission which had carried out the inquiry into his alleged sexual misdemeanour had not given him an opportunity to explain his part.