CPM to strengthen agitations against Kerala, Centre

After a long gap, the CPM state secretariat meeting held on Friday is learnt to have skipped discussions on factional feuds. Instead, it discussed the political and organisational issues to be taken up in the next one year.

The meeting, attended by Politburo member S Ramachandran Pillai, also decided to strengthen the agitations against the anti-people policies of the State and the Central Governments.

Among the programmes to be taken in the coming days, agitations against price rise and failure in implementing food security will be strengthened.

The state leadership is also learnt to have discussed the issue  of  conducting court cases involving party leaders and active workers involved in the murder cases including that of T P Chandrasekharan and Shukkoor,  which landed Kannur district secretary P Jayarajan and T V Rajesh MLA, in jail.

Party’s efforts to mobilise funds for conducting the case of M M Mani, Idukki former district secretary, has not been a success. Confining the fund mobilisation to Kannur district alone would not be sufficient enough to meet the expenses of the cases related to the murder of T P Chandrasekharan and Shukkoor. But the party is undecided on mobilising funds at the state-level in the name of conducting cases. Friday’s meeting also did not discuss Opposition Leader V S Achuthanandan’s defiance in owning up his lapses in public as instructed by the last Central Committee meeting. Politburo member Sitaram Yachury made it clear the other day that VS had admitted his lapses in the Central Committee and there was no question of VS making any public admission.