Amid wrangle, LDF lays groundwork for CPI-CPI(M) detente over Kerala Deputy Opposition Leader post

T.P. Ramakrishnan, who held a brief closed-door meeting with the CPI State Secretary Binoy Viswam, signalled that the rapprochement was not immediately at hand. He said the discussions were in their nascent stages and denied any rift in the coalition. Viswam merely stated that “CPI and CPI(M) pursued the same politics”