No action against Jayarajan: CPM

LDF convernor met BJP’s Kerala in-charge Prakash Javadekar on polling day on April 26

- K Ss SREEJITH

SENIOR CPM leader E P Jayarajan, who put the party in a spot on the day of the Lok Sabha election, will continue as LDF convenor for the time being. In what appears to be an obvious cover-up, the state CPM on Monday gave a clean chit to Jayarajan who admitted to meeting BJP national leader Prakash Javadekar in the presence of controversial middleman T G Nandakumar.

A final decision on action against the party veteran will be taken by the CPM Central Committee.

Noticeably, the CPM also decided to launch a counter-campaign on the whole issue, projecting it as an example of party leaders' ideological capacity to withstand attempts by the BJP to woo them over.

The party secretariat that met on Monday decided to back Jayarajan's claims that a section of media along with BJP leader Sobha Surendran and Congress state chief K Sudhakaran hatched a conspiracy against him.