CPI(M) today termed as "a wrong step" its senior leader V S Achuthanandan's letter to Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy supporting the demand for a CBI probe into the death of former party leader T P Chandrasekharan.
The party "considers the letter written by Comrade V S Achuthanandan, as Leader of the Opposition, to the Chief Minister of Kerala on February 7, 2014, as a wrong step and not in conformity with the stand of the party," the CPI(M) Politburo said in a statement here.
Achuthanandan wrote a letter to Chandy supporting Chandrasekharan's wife K K Rema's demand for a CBI inquiry into the conspiracy behind the killing in May 2012.
Rema called off her five-day fast yesterday after the Kerala government decided to seek a CBI probe into the conspiracy behind the killing of Chandrasekharan who had floated the Revolutionary Marxist Party after CPI(M) expelled him.
Achuthanandan is reported to have said in his letter that a probe of the kind sought by Rema was inevitable considering the killer gang's links with an alleged smuggler who had international connections and suspected terror links.
Last month, a special court sentenced 11 people, including three local CPI(M) functionaries, to life imprisonment in the case.
