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Probe Achuthanandan's murder allegations: Congress
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 24
The Congress party
in Kerala Tuesday decided to seek fresh probe into the allegations
levelled by veteran CPI-M leader V.S. Achuthanandan in a letter to the
party regarding the sensational T.P. Chandrasekheran murder case.
"A
meeting that was held here Tuesday has decided to ask the Oommen Chandy
government to take cognizance of the allegations levelled by
Achuthanandan on the conspiracy angle in TP case and take further steps.
"His allegations have come at a time when TP's widow K.K. Rema
has spoken about the conspiracy behind her husband's murder," State
Congress president V.M. Sudheeran told reporters here, after the party
meeting.
Chandrasekheran, 51, who left the CPI-M and launched the
Revolutionary Marxist Party, was hacked 51 times by assailants May 4,
2012 near his hometown in Kozhikode district.
Rema has alleged
conspiracy and involvement of the CPI-M leadership in her husband's
elimination. She has been demanding a CBI probe into the murder for
long.
A dozen people found accused in the case are in jail, including three middle-level CPI-M leaders.
"Achuthanandan's
letter to the politburo, (which found its way into the media )cannot be
just dismissed as an internal issue of the party," the political
resolution passed Tuesday by the Congress party said.
"But it delves into a conspiracy that was hatched and it's this angle that has now to be probed deeper."
Incidentally,
it was this letter that angered the CPI-M during its four-day meet. The
party came heavily on Achuthanandan's breaching of the party
discipline, which saw him walking out of the conference on the second
day.
Despite pleas from the top most leadership of the CPI-M, he did not return.