Sigh of relief for VS, no action against three

KOLKATA:  No action will be taken now against the personal staff members of opposition leader V S Achuthanandan. It has been stated that the politburo has not directed the central committee to approve the decision of the sate leadership to oust VS’ personal assistant A Suresh, press secretary K Balakrishnan and additional private secretary V K Sasidharan on the charge of leaking out party information to the media.

VS had earlier requested party general secretary Prakash Karat not to take action against the members of his personal staff. The demand seeking action against them did not get much support in the politburo also.

When majority of the members of politburo were against taking action, the state members were firm in their decision.