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Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan (File photo) NEW DELHI: At least two CPM district committees are believed to have requested the party leadership on Saturday to make an exception to its two-term MLA norm for candidate selection, even as posters openly sympathetic to several CPM ministers and senior leaders who didn t find a place in the list approved by the party s state committee on Friday appeared in various places across the state. Five senior ministers E P Jayarajan, Thomas Isaac, G Sudhakaran, AK Balan and C Raveendranath and leaders who enjoy a great degree of respect, like P Jayarajan in Kannur and Raju Abraham in Ranni, are out of the CPM s list unless the state secretariat, which meets on Monday, decides to heed the pressure from the rank and file. Though quite not on that scale, the growing unrest among party cadres is reminiscent of the pro-Achuthanandan marches in 2016 and 2011 when the party denied the veteran leader a ticket. ....