CPI(M) Pathanamthitta meeting to review election losses and organisation
The CPI(M) will hold a two-day extended district committee meeting in Pathanamthitta on October 6 and 7 to examine electoral losses and internal organisational problems. The LDF lost four of the district’s five Assembly seats, while the party is also facing questions over a senior leader’s absence and a case involving another senior figure.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) will hold a two-day extended district committee meeting in Pathanamthitta on October 6 and 7 to review its electoral setback and discuss measures to strengthen the organisation. District secretary Raju Abraham will present the working report at the opening session. CPI(M) Polit Bureau member A.
Vijayaraghavan is scheduled to inaugurate the meeting, which will also be attended by central committee and State secretariat members. The meeting will include 106 delegates: district committee members, area committee secretaries, three representatives from each area committee, and three representatives from class and mass organisations. It will conclude with a public rally and public meeting.
Abraham said the deliberations would produce decisions aimed at improving the party’s organisational capacity and expanding its mass influence. The review follows a major setback for the Left Democratic Front in the district. The LDF, which had won all five Assembly seats in Pathanamthitta in the previous term, lost four in the latest election.
It retained Konni, but with a significantly reduced victory margin. The coalition had fielded four sitting MLAs in the district, including a minister. The meeting is also expected to take place amid discussion about the prolonged absence of former minister and senior CPI(M) leader Veena George from party programmes and organisational meetings.
Abraham said the party understood that George had taken leave for medical reasons and that matters concerning her were handled at State committee level. The party is additionally dealing with the fallout from the Sabarimala gold case, in which senior leader A. Padmakumar has been named as an accused.
The supplied material does not say what decisions the meeting will take on the case or on George’s future organisational role.
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