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Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 11, Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Wednesday rejected opposition calls that he should step down following the rout of his Left Democratic Front (LDF) in assembly by-elections.

V.S. Achuthanandan

“The demand for my resignation is a routine one,” Achuthanandan told reporters after the weekly cabinet meeting.

The Congress Tuesday called for the Marxist chief minister’s exit after winning all three assembly by-elections in Kannur, Ernakulam and Alappuzha.

The Congress victories shattered the LDF myth that it never lost a by-election while in power. Two of the seats were lost by Achuthanandan’s Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and one by the Communist Party of India.

The LDF, the chief minister said, would meet soon to discuss the electoral debacle.

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