Former aide feels VS Achuthanandan thankless

Thiruvananthapuram: The former aide of Administrative Reforms Commission chairman V. S. Achuthanandan has accused the veteran leader of doing nothing to revoke his expulsion from the party membership. A. Suresh who was expelled from the party in 2013 along with two others for leaking party decisions, told a regional news channel that Achuthanandan did nothing for those who had stood by him. “It was on the advice of VS that I appealed to the leadership to take me back into the party fold. But the party is yet to act on my appeal,” he said.

Suresh said that as the PA of VS he had no specific job and had even kept aside his personal requirements to be with the veteran. While O. K. Vasu and A. Asokan were taken back by the party and doors were opened to S. Sivaraman and M. R. Murali, the party was finding it difficult to accommodate people like him. He functioned as the close aide of VS for 13 years during the latter’s tenure as Chief Minister and opposition leader.

Suresh was expelled from the party along with K. Balakrishnan and V. K. Sasidharan in 2013 on charges of leaking crucial party decisions to the media. Despite the A. Vijayaraghavan and Vaikom Viswan Commission finding them guilty of the charges and recommending their expulsion and the party state committee endorsing it, the veteran leader could stall the action for more than a year. But the CPM state leadership had the last laugh at the central committee meeting which approved their expulsion.