[1]It was a lull on Sunday after Kerala Opposition leader V.S. Achuthanandan fired his salvos against the party state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, though poster campaigns supporting VS cropped up in various parts of the state.
The scene was similar to the one prior to the last assembly elections when some activists gave vent to their fury through posters decrying the party leadership and praising Achuthanandan.
Party sources expect the lull to be one before the storm at the CPM state secretariat meeting on May 15. However, sources close to Pinarayi say that no discussion on the VS-Pinarayi spat will be taken up till the Neyyattinkara by-poll.
On Sunday, Achuthanandan held meetings with his close lieutenants, S. Sarma and K. Chandran Pillai in Kochi.
Later, at a public function at Vypeen, he spoke at length about banks denying education loans.
Sources close to Opposition leader Achuthanandan refused to divulge details of the meetings that he held with Sarma and Pillai, but only said their leader had already said all what had to be said in the T.P. Chandrasekharan murder issue.
At Neyyattinkara, Pinarayi Vijayan who began his two-day tour of the constituency refused to be drawn to questions by the media and only said that there was no reason for worry on he being compared to S.A. Dange by the veteran communist leader V.S. Achuthanandan.
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