Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State secretary M.V. Govindan and the party leadership at various levels came under a scathing attack at the party State secretariat held to take a preliminary stock of the Left front’s massive drubbing in the just-concluded elections.
In an exercise begun with a view to identify the organisational lapses and functional missteps made by the party and the front which resulted in the adverse outcome, the State secretariat members resolved to meet again on May 12, which will be followed by a meeting of the State committee on May 13 and 14 to get to the root of the causes that led to the debacle.
CPI(M) general secretary M.A. Baby said the party would analyse the defeat threadbare in order to make necessary corrections. Party forums at various levels will listen to their immediate lower units, down to the branch, the grassroots rung of the CPI(M), as part of an intense and self-critical process of examination.
Organisational changes
While frustrated party workers and sympathisers demanded immediate organisational changes on social media and through posters, any change would be undertaken only at the end of this self-examination, a senior leader said.
