CPI(M) pushes back against the ‘capital punishment’ controversy centred around late V.S.

The recent portrayal by two former CPI(M) insiders that the party had singled out Achuthanandan for harsh criticism during its 2015 State conference in Alappuzha, forcing the veteran to exit the venue in distress, sparked the dispute, which erupted, discomfitingly for the party, in the wake of the outpouring of public grief for the departed leader

​The recent portrayal by two former CPI(M) insiders that the party had singled out Achuthanandan for harsh criticism during its 2015 State conference in Alappuzha, forcing the veteran to exit the venue in distress, sparked the dispute, which erupted, discomfitingly for the party, in the wake of the outpouring of public grief for the departed leader