CPM party congress to be held in Kannur

Thiruvananthapuram: The party congress of the CPM will be held in Kannur in April next year. This was decided at the central committee meeting of the party.
However, the central committee has decided that the party meetings will be rescheduled if the third wave of the pandemic hits hard in the country. It has been decided to begin all the state conferences from October this year.
“The district conference will begin in September and the state conferences will begin in October. It has been decided to organize the party congress by April next year,” said CPM politburo member Prakash Karat, in New Delhi after the central committee meeting on Sunday.
The last party congress that was held in the state was in 2012 in Kozhikode. The state committee had put forward a proposal before the central committee for convening the party congress either in Kannur or Kollam this year. It was in the backdrop of the party’s spectacular win for a successive government in the state that the central committee decided to have the party congress in Kerala itself.
The central committee also reviewed the state assembly election results of West Bengal and Kerala. The party had received a severe drubbing in West Bengal. The committee also discussed the preparations the party has to make for the impending assembly elections in Tripura in 2023.
It is learnt that in the central committee meeting, the party leadership of West Bengal came under severe attack for the wrong policies they had taken in the last assembly election. The committee is learnt to have observed that the tie up with the Congress was not well received by the people and hence it was one of the reasons for the party’s dismal performance. The leaders opined that the party conferences should evolve concrete measures to rejuvenate the party cadres in West Bengal.