THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: CPM will undertake a statewide house-to-house campaign from January 24 to 31 in to keep its poll machinery warmed up in preparation for the assembly election later this year.
After the state committee meeting, here, on Sunday, state secretary A Vijayaraghavan said CPM leaders and the party’s elected representatives of local bodies would organize the visits to drive home the message of comprehensive development, social security and secularism.
Vijayaraghavan alleged that UDF has adopted the strategy of communal polarization. On the one hand it is engaged in trading votes with BJP, while on the other it backed the pre-poll understanding between Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) and Welfare Party. By harking on the reservation issue, IUML also tried communalize the election. A party like Congress, with secular credentials, should not have supported this, Vijayaraghavan said.
He said UDF’s fate was sealed when KC (M) Jose K Mani faction left the front. LDF that bagged the people’s mandate in the recent local-body election would utilize it to undertake welfare measures. Vijayaraghavan also said he expects more parties to leave UDF for LDF.
The state committee has decided to undertake measures to attract more people to the party, he said, adding that the committee has also decided to throw its weight behind the three-day farmers’ protest to be held before Raj Bhavan in support of the national agitation.