Differences between Kerala’s ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) and junior ally, the Communist Party of India, over implementing the Pradhan Mantri Schools for Rising India (PM SHRI) scheme continue to play out in public, with the latter still pressing the state to withdraw from the project.

A day after Education Minister and senior CPI(M) leader V. Sivankutty defended the decision to join the scheme, the CPI held its ground, saying that even after a meeting with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan , “nothing had changed.”

“No solution has arrived at for the issues we have raised,” CPI state secretary Binoy Viswam said after his closed-door discussions with Vijayan in Alappuzha. “The party will take a decision at the appropriate time.”

The CPI stirred up a storm in the ruling L

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