Hitting out at the party committee that examined the flaws in electioneering in the Ambalappuzha Assembly constituency in 2021, former Minister and senior Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] leader G. Sudhakaran has said the panel has submitted a one-sided report without quoting a “single line” from his statement.
Based on the report submitted by the panel comprising CPI(M) leaders Elamaram Kareem and K.J. Thomas, the State committee in November 2021 publicly censured Mr. Sudhakaran for not behaving as expected of a party State committee member during candidate selection and campaign for the 2021 Assembly election.
“I had given a 24-page affidavit to the panel. However, the panel submitted its report totally omitting my explanation. I am not raising this as a complaint, but it is the fact. I accepted the party’s decision to censure me. I have not uttered a single word against it nor did I file an appeal to the CPI(M) central committee. I have no complaints over it,” Mr. Sudhakaran told The Hindu. “I have been maintaining extraordinary discipline after the party decision,” he added.
