Achutanandan denies joining AAP

Thiruvananathapuram: Veteran CPI-M leader V.S. Achuthanandan on Thursday admitted to having met lawyer and Aam Aadmi Party leader Prashant Bhushan but asserted that he is not interested in joining the Arvind Kejriwal-led party. The 90-year-old founding member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist and former Kerala chief minister was responding to a question about speculation that he might join AAP as he has been cut up with the leadership of his party led by its state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan for several years. [caption id=“attachment_1400935” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] VS Achutanandan. AFP.[/caption] “Even when Kejriwal was a school student, I was busy working for my party and at one point of time, I was also the chief minister here (2006-11). He has not probably understood me and my thinking. I do not have any plans at all to join AAP,” said Achuthanandan. To media persons noting that a crucial CPI-M central committee meeting is going to be held in the first week of March, where disciplinary action might be considered against him, he shot back: “I am not at all worried with such things.” IANS