There was intense media speculation on Monday that the CPI(M) State secretariat had recommended E. P. Jayarajan as the next Left Democratic Front (LDF) convener.
A party person said the rumour had been doing the rounds ever since the 23rd party congress elevated incumbent LDF convener A. Vijayaraghavan to the Polit Bureau. The State secretariat had made some recommendations to the State committee, which would formalise the decisions on Tuesday.
The CPI(M) was also tight-lipped on whether State committee member P. Sasi would succeed Dinesan Puthalath as Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s political secretary. Mr. Sasi had served as political secretary to Chief Minister E. K. Nayanar from 1996 to 2001.
