No fixed term for state secretary in new document: CPI-M leader
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 29 (IANS) A senior leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Sunday said the party’s ‘rectification document’ prepared to reverse its electoral slides and strengthen cadre base does not limit the state units chief’s term to three years.
T.Sivadasa Menon, a veteran CPI-M leader and party secretariat member, said no such decision has been taken.
‘There is not a mention of such a thing in the document because such a decision just cannot be taken by the central committee of the party. It can be done only through an amendment at the party congress,’ said Menon at a meeting organised by the party mouthpiece Deshabhimani.
Reports of this surfaced soon after the party top brass met in Delhi in October and gave the nod for initiating a ‘rectification campaign’ to overcome shortcomings within its ranks.
Speculations soon began that a cap on number of terms for state party secretary was put to take out Pinarayi Vijayan, who has been the CPI-M Kerala secretary since 1998.
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