Polit Bureau decision to suspend Achuthanandan, Vijayan endorsed

New Delhi June 26 (UNI) The Central Committee of the CPI(M), the highest decision-making body of the party, today ratified the suspension of Kerala Chief Minsiter V S Achuthanandan and Party State Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan from the membership of the Polit Bereau and said there was no time limit for the revocation.

This was announced by Party General Secretary Prakash Karat at the conclusion of the three-day deliberations of the party's 85-member Central Committee.

Mr Karat said the Committee would take review the situation on the issue in its next meeting.

He also made it clear that there was no time limit for the ''revocation'' of the Polit Bureau's decision to suspend its members for trading charges in public.

The Party's All India 19th Congress, held every three years will be held at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu in March 2008. The time-table for the same had been finalised.

The party has also resolved to launch a two-week countrywide campaign to press for curbing price rise, PDS for all, retail trade, farmers problems and Indo- US nuclear cooperation.

To protest against the government's decision to allow the US nuclear weopons warship to sail in Indian waters from July 1 in Chennai, it will hold a full day demonstration.

On the international Front, the party supported the demand for restoration of democratic rights and political activities and holding of early Parliament elections in Bangladesh.

While demanding a fresh draft Bill for social security for over 370 million unorganised workers, the party reiterated its demand for regulating the retail trade and terming the rules of the Forest Tribal Act.

It will also make fresh efforts to ensure that the Bill on Women's Reservation is brought to Parliament during the next session.

Also, it has warned the UPA government against clinching the 123 bilateral agreement with the US by compromising on vital issues or trying to avoid ''unacceptable terms and conditions'' passed by the Hyde Act.

The Committee endorsed the decision exactly a month after the Polit Bureau suspended the two Kerala leaders for publicly expressing their differences in defiance of party's norms.

UNI