Idukki: Senior CPI-M leader M.M. Mani has been re-elected as the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Idukki district secretary at the district committee meeting here on Thursday.
Mani was removed from the post after he made a controversial speech, which had embarrassed the party and invited an all round condemnation.
Mani had at a public meeting stated that the Marxist party had eliminated at least three of its political foes in the 1980s.
Police had registered cases against Mani and five others on the basis of the disclosures, including one pertaining to the murder of a Congress worker who was shot dead on November 13, 1982.