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Achuthanandan dropped from CPI-M's Kerala state secretariat
Thiruvananthapuram, April 25
Veteran CPI-M
leader and former Kerala chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan was on
Saturday dropped from the party's 15-member state secretariat, it was
announced here.
The announcement came days after the 91-year-old
Achuthanandan was dropped from the Communist Party of India-Marxist's
central committee.
Besides Achuthanandan, former minister P.K.
Gurdasan and Left Democratic Front convenor Vaikom Viswan were dropped
form the secretariat.
They were replaced by M.M. Mani, K.J. Thomas and T.P. Ramakrishnan.
"The
new secretariat list was approved by the state committee members by
raising their hands," politburo member M.A. Baby told IANS.
Sources
in the CPI-M said newly elected party general secretary Sitaram Yechury
informed the state committee that all issues concerning Achuthanandan
would be decided by the central committee.