How will Left fill Achuthanandan void
In a world which has generally swung to the Right, the prospects for the revival of Left politics look quite bleak unless it radically reinvents itself.
Updated At : 06:50 AM Jul 25, 2025 IST
Comrades: Former Kerala CM VS Achuthanandan (right) with CPI(M) colleague Sitaram Yechury. PTI
Before the veteran Communist leader from Kerala, VS Achuthanandan, breathed his last on July 21, he had lived to be 101 years and seen it all: a childhood of poverty, youthful grassroots agitational politics, long innings in the Kerala Legislative Assembly, rise to Chief Ministership. He was a member of the Politburo, the CPI(M)’s highest organisational body. He was a part of factional politics within the party, along with its controversies, disgrace and eventual decline.
