THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: CPM State secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, in an article in CPM mouthpiece Deshabhimani, has said that the party doesn’t consider Maoists, who got killed in Attapadi and camping in various pockets of Kerala, as arch-rivals and they are the propounders of the outdated ideology - ‘revolution through the barrel of gun’.

His article has come out even as the topic will be come up for discussion in Secretariat on Friday.

“Maoists are trying gain to foothold in several parts of India setting their camps against the backdrop of backward and impoverished state of Adivasi and tribal people. But by trying to make Kerala, which does have such conditions for these sects, the Maoists reveal its political agenda to weaken the Left front in the State,” he says.

“The CPM can’t see today’s Maosits as true Marxist-Leninists as it used to consider Naxalites in the past. Maoists exist with the ideology of eradication, wherever it be but the CPM has welcomed many such groups among them who have discarded the politics of gun,” he says.

Kodiyeri also adds that the police action in Attapady was not a political decision of the LDF or Pinarayi Vijayan.