CPI(M) disinclined to pursue spat with Sudhakaran

Party has closed the chapter: Vijayaraghavan

Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] acting State secretary A. Vijayaraghavan said the party had drawn the curtain on the verbal tangle with Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president K. Sudhakaran. He said Mr. Sudhakaran had stepped outside the bounds of acceptable behaviour by personally targetting Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Mr. Sudhakaran had crossed a line. The party was constrained to respond in the same coin. The CPI(M) had closed the chapter. It was not inclined to revisit the issue. When pressed, Mr. Vijayaraghavan said the CPI(M) had neither backed down nor advanced. It was not a question of which side blinked first, he said.