Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi: Veteran CPM leader E P Jayarajan met with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday at Kerala House in Delhi. The meeting made headlines as EP visited the CM for the first time after getting removed from the LDF convener post. Jayarajan has been keeping away from public programmes and party functions for some time.
Both the leaders reached the national capital to pay their last respects to party general secretary Sitaram Yechury who died in a Delhi hospital on Thursday after battling a lung infection.
However, Jayarajan told reporters that his meeting with Chief Minister Vijayan was nothing new. He said he used to visit the CM whenever time permitted, especially when he arrived in New Delhi.
"We all are part of a party family. We all have love and respect towards each other," he said in New Delhi. He also accused the media of propagating wrong news based on misinterpretations and urged them to think in a "right manner".
The ruling CPM in Kerala announced on August 31 that E P Jayarajan would no longer hold the post of LDF convener and would be replaced by party leader T P Ramakrishnan. The veteran Marxist leader has reportedly been under fire from the party ever since he admitted, in April, to meeting BJP leader Prakash Javadekar.
(With PTI inputs)
