Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan and CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan left here for Delhi to attend the party’s politburo meeting which is also slated to discuss the unprecedented statement war between the two leaders.
A day after both the leaders gave up their shadowboxing and almost took names while hitting out at each other, Mr Achuthanandan opened a new frontier in their famous hostilities. The Chief Minister said here on Thursday that he expected the politburo to discuss the unilateral disciplinary action being taken against many diehard party members. It may be noted that the party had thrown out many of Mr Achuthanandan’s supporters from every district for having violated discipline.

Indiscipline
The acts of indiscipline also included taking out a protest demonstration against the denial of party seat to Mr Achuthanandan during the last assembly elections. Mr Achuthanandan who has lost considerable support in the party district committees even in the last one year has now indicated that he would take up the issue with the PB. Very much aware of his waning support, he expects his larger-than-life image projected by the media to do the trick. It is precisely for this reason that Mr Vijayan has been criticising the media.
According to him, the CPM was a cadre party and a “different” party where individuals were subordinate to party’s interests.  He feels that the media had been unfairly projecting the LDF government’s achievements as those of Mr Achuthanandan’s only.
However, the CM’s efforts behind two remarkable events were too obvious to be ignored. In the first case, officers handpicked by him succeeded in clinching the prestigious Smartcity deal from Dubai-based Tecom from what looked like an irredeemable position.
The movement to recover encroached government land from resorts and other buildings in the hill station of Munnar has already spread its wings to other parts of the state. Bulldozers are working overtime to recover land from business groups which have encroached land and water bodies in Ernakulam, Alappuzha, Kozhikode, Malappuram and Wayanad.