Achutanandan

On expected lines, senior CPM politburo member Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Sunday was unanimously elected as the party's state secretary for a second three-year term.

Amidst continuing controversy over the location of his new office, Marxist veteran and Chairman of Kerala Administrative Reforms Commission VS Achutanandan on Monday expressed displeasure over lack of facilities for him at the Assembly complex.

As it announced that Pinarayi Vijayan will be Kerala's new chief minister, the CPI-M said 92-year-old VS Achuthanandan, who it did not pick, remains an important man. The party's Fidel Castro, said general secretary Sitaram Yechury.

A poll of exit polls, aggregating four polls, shows Kerala stick to its record of yo-yo politics, picking the CPM-led Left Democratic Front or LDF over the Congress-led United Democratic Front or UDF, which ruled the state for the last five years.

VS Achutanandan started his union work early. He was still in his teens, working in a coir factory, when he began organising workers. With very little formal education, it was his ability to connect with the people that saw him rise through the party ranks. He is outspoken and has offended and been chastised by his party over the years. And his rep...

The dividing line between friends and foes is thin enough in politics. But it becomes tricky when two parties are allies in one state - and bitter opponents in another, at the same time. The case in point - the Left and the Congress. The two parties are bitter enemies in Kerala, which votes next Monday. In Bengal, where assembly polls just got over...

A heated exchange of words between the ruling and opposition party members was witnessed today in Kerala Assembly over a decade-old case relating to awarding a contract.

Opposition parties in Kerala today walked out of the Assembly, boycotting Governor P Sathasivam's address.

Ending a brief relief for CPI-M veteran and former chief minister V S Achuthanandan, a Kerala High Court Bench today stayed within hours a single judge's order quashing an First Information Report against him in a land allotment case.

Kerala Information Commissioner K Natarajan, who was suspended for allegedly interfering in a land assignment case involving former chief minister VS Achuthanandan, today moved the High Court challenging the action against him.

The director general of prosecution (DGP) informed Kerala High Court Tuesday that former chief minister and veteran CPM leader VS Achuthanandan has been arraigned as the prime accused in a land scam case involving his relative and the chargesheet will be filed soon.

Kerala's Information Commissioner K Natarajan has been accused of trying to protect former chief minister VS Achutanandan in a land scam case by an investigating officer who has furnished audio recordings that he claims prove he is being pressured. The former chief minister and Left leader, who is the key accused in the case, has distanced himself ...

Kerala's Information Commissioner K Natarajan is under state police scanner for allegedly influencing the investigation into the Kasaragode land scam and trying to protect former chief minister VS Achutanandan, who is a key accused in the case.

Keeping up his struggle, CPI (M) stalwart V S Achuthanandan has found fault with publication of the recent resolution adopted by the party's Central Committee on Kerala situation, which came down heavily on him for openly attacking the state leadership.

A special seven-member committee of the Kerala assembly on Thursday presented its report indicting V.S. Achuthanandan for flouting rules in getting his son V.A. Arun Kumar appointed as head of two state-run institutions when the veteran Marxist was chief minister.

On expected lines, senior CPM politburo member Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Sunday was unanimously elected as the party's state secretary for a second three-year term.

Amidst continuing controversy over the location of his new office, Marxist veteran and Chairman of Kerala Administrative Reforms Commission VS Achutanandan on Monday expressed displeasure over lack of facilities for him at the Assembly complex.

As it announced that Pinarayi Vijayan will be Kerala's new chief minister, the CPI-M said 92-year-old VS Achuthanandan, who it did not pick, remains an important man. The party's Fidel Castro, said general secretary Sitaram Yechury.

A poll of exit polls, aggregating four polls, shows Kerala stick to its record of yo-yo politics, picking the CPM-led Left Democratic Front or LDF over the Congress-led United Democratic Front or UDF, which ruled the state for the last five years.

VS Achutanandan started his union work early. He was still in his teens, working in a coir factory, when he began organising workers. With very little formal education, it was his ability to connect with the people that saw him rise through the party ranks. He is outspoken and has offended and been chastised by his party over the years. And his rep...

The dividing line between friends and foes is thin enough in politics. But it becomes tricky when two parties are allies in one state - and bitter opponents in another, at the same time. The case in point - the Left and the Congress. The two parties are bitter enemies in Kerala, which votes next Monday. In Bengal, where assembly polls just got over...

A heated exchange of words between the ruling and opposition party members was witnessed today in Kerala Assembly over a decade-old case relating to awarding a contract.

Opposition parties in Kerala today walked out of the Assembly, boycotting Governor P Sathasivam's address.

Ending a brief relief for CPI-M veteran and former chief minister V S Achuthanandan, a Kerala High Court Bench today stayed within hours a single judge's order quashing an First Information Report against him in a land allotment case.

Kerala Information Commissioner K Natarajan, who was suspended for allegedly interfering in a land assignment case involving former chief minister VS Achuthanandan, today moved the High Court challenging the action against him.

The director general of prosecution (DGP) informed Kerala High Court Tuesday that former chief minister and veteran CPM leader VS Achuthanandan has been arraigned as the prime accused in a land scam case involving his relative and the chargesheet will be filed soon.

Kerala's Information Commissioner K Natarajan has been accused of trying to protect former chief minister VS Achutanandan in a land scam case by an investigating officer who has furnished audio recordings that he claims prove he is being pressured. The former chief minister and Left leader, who is the key accused in the case, has distanced himself ...

Kerala's Information Commissioner K Natarajan is under state police scanner for allegedly influencing the investigation into the Kasaragode land scam and trying to protect former chief minister VS Achutanandan, who is a key accused in the case.

Keeping up his struggle, CPI (M) stalwart V S Achuthanandan has found fault with publication of the recent resolution adopted by the party's Central Committee on Kerala situation, which came down heavily on him for openly attacking the state leadership.

A special seven-member committee of the Kerala assembly on Thursday presented its report indicting V.S. Achuthanandan for flouting rules in getting his son V.A. Arun Kumar appointed as head of two state-run institutions when the veteran Marxist was chief minister.