Yes, I sent the letter: VS Achuthanandan

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A day after the state CPM leadership claimed that the VS letter to the central leadership was the ‘creation of the media’, Opposition leader V.S. Achuthanandan confirmed that he did send it.

In quick reaction, party general secretary Prakash Karat said in Delhi on Monday that he received the letter, but termed media reports about Achuthanandan demanding a recast of the state leadership —and that, otherwise, he would step down as opposition leader — as “misleading” and “mere speculation.”

Party sources in Delhi said an ‘available politburo’ would take up the matter on Tuesday, though the party would come on record on the matter only after discussing it in detail at the central committee meeting on June 9 and 10.

Amid political speculations, leaders of the Revolutionary Marxist Party met Achuthanandan at his official residence on Monday, and held discussions with him for more than an hour.

A week after his scathing attack on the party leadership, Achuthanandan refused to divulge details of his letter when reporters met him in Mavelikkara where he attended a public function.

The investigation would prove whether the TPC murder was politically planned, he said, adding, “The party general secretary has already told the media that action would be taken if any party member was involved in the incident. I have nothing more to say.”

On the visit of RMP leaders N. Venugopal and Kumarankutty, he said several people met him regularly as he was the opposition leader.

Earlier, he spent around three hours at the Kayamkulam guest house holding discussions with party state committee member C.S. Sujata and former district committee member M.R. Rajsasekharan.

“A letter has been received,” Karat told the media, adding, “The media in Kerala is indulging in a lot of speculation on (this) letter sent by Comrade V.S. Achuthanandan to me… They seem intended to create confusion,” he said.

He told DC that “nothing is urgent” with regard to the letter. The politburo would not be convened immediately, he asserted.