Rebel CPI(M) leader denies receiving Kerala CM's call

ALAPPUZHA (KERALA): (Mar 21) Former CPI(M) leader and independent candidate from Ambalappuzha, G Sudhakaran, on Saturday denied claims that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had contacted him over the phone, saying he had not received any call from the CM.

Sudhakaran told a television channel that Vijayan's number is saved on his phone with the name 'CM' and no call had come from that number.

"I had not received any calls in the names of Pinarayi Vijayan or the CM. I have saved his number in my phone as CM. But, I have not got any call from that number," he said on Saturday.