ALAPPUZHA: Intervention of the state leadership has prevented factional feud in Alappuzha from exploding. With some delegates at the CPM Alappuzha district conference launching a scathing attack on former minister G Sudhakaran, chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan asked them to stop it.
Factionalism is under control in all other districts, but it is active in Alappuzha CPM and the internal feud is a headache for the leadership. A section which supports minister Saji Cheriyan has been lashing out at Sudhakaran, a state committee member, for the past couple of years. The allegations that Sudhakaran, whom the party denied ticket to contest elections, didn't actively engage in campaigning for the assembly polls last year paved the way for factionalism in the party in the district reaching its summit. With the party's inquiry panels acknowledging merit in the allegations, the party had censured Sudhakaran.
