Thaindian News

New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) The two-day politburo meeting of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) that concluded here Sunday decided to prepare a draft document for its “rectification campaign” to inculcate in its cadres the “living culture based on communist values.”
The draft will be placed before the central committee meeting of the party to be held Oct 23-25, said a party communique.

The CPI-M has been searching for the reasons for its worst ever debacle in the April-May Lok Sabha elections with its tally falling to 16 seats from 43 in the 2004 elections.

“The politburo had a discussion on the content of the document for the rectification campaign. On the basis of this discussion, a draft will be prepared to be placed before the next central committee meeting,” the communique said.

The politburo will meet again Oct 11 to discuss the document.

The rectification document is being prepared “to enhance level of consciousness” among the party leaders and cadres and to formulate a “living culture” based on Communist values, said senior party leaders.

The decision to launch the rectification campaign in the party was taken in the last party congress.

Senior CPI-M leaders said the main target of the rectification campaign was the “newly recruited cadres and leaders.”

Most of the party members are newly recruited and they lack the knowledge of communist lifestyle, the party leader said.