T
en years have elapsed since the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] flagged the urgent need to curtail some undesirable practices among its cadre.
“There is a growing desire among some Party cadres to contest elections. They demand to contest elections in places where there is no basis to contest. When certain cadres have not been allowed to contest, they have expressed their displeasure by not working during the election. In some cases, there has been defiance of the Party decision, especially at the level of the local bodies election (sic),” read the organisational report adopted by the party’s Kolkata Plenum in December 2015.
