M M Mani rules out resignation

Sunday, June 03, 2012: CPM Idukki district secretary M M Mani today rubbished reports that he would resign his post inconnection with his controversial speech.
“No question of resigning. Such thought is not on my mind. I had not gone underground .I did not come out in public because I wanted to stay away from controversies’, he said.
Mani also said that the politburo has not dismissed him from the secretary’s post and the party has no issues with him.
Mani had made a controversial speech where he said that CPM had prepared a list of political rivals and they were killed accordingly. Police had booked a case against Mani and it was reported that he went into hiding.