Baby differs with CPM on plenum ad

Thiruvananthapuram: CPM politburo member M.A. Baby has said that  partymen should  keep a distance with shady people  and check aberrations while implementing the rectification programme aimed at weeding out un-communist tendencies.

Baby told Deccan Chronicle that the party would stick to its stand that there shouldn't be any liaison with  shady characters.  Pinarayi Vijayan has already stated that the circumstances under which an  advertisement of a controversial businessman appeared in Deshabhimani would be looked into in detail, he said and added  that the controversy had diverted the attention from the plenum.
“Since the party is implementing the rectification agenda at all levels, the leadership and workers will have to be vigilant like never before.

Even a small aberration would come in for severe criticism,’’ he added. The plenum had  set the agenda for rectification and over the next one year,  the party would carry out a massive exercise to check “alien” tendencies among partymen from local to state level. 

“Even those who are not sympathetic to our party have supported the plenum call to clean up the organisation and we should not betray their faith,’’ he said.  The party had become more united after the plenum and factionalism which had bogged it down  for more than one-and-a-half decades has almost been eradicated, he said.