Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 29 (IANS) A senior leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Sunday said the party’s ‘rectification document’ prepared to reverse its electoral slides and strengthen cadre base does not limit the state units chief’s term to three years.
T.Sivadasa Menon, a veteran CPI-M leader and party secretariat member, said no such decision has been taken.

“There is not a mention of such a thing in the document because such a decision just cannot be taken by the central committee of the party. It can be done only through an amendment at the party congress,” said Menon at a meeting organised by the party mouthpiece Deshabhimani.

Reports of this surfaced soon after the party top brass met in Delhi in October and gave the nod for initiating a “rectification campaign” to overcome shortcomings within its ranks.

Speculations soon began that a cap on number of terms for state party secretary was put to take out Pinarayi Vijayan, who has been the CPI-M Kerala secretary since 1998.