CPM urged to revive rectification plan

Lamenting that the programme was suspended amidst the hurly-burly of the 1998 general elections, Huda wrote “the programme was suspended though we all know the need for rectification and stock-taking within the organisation is far from over.”

Expressing his unhappiness over the party ignoring the corrective measures suggested during the Salkia Plenum in 1978, Huda said because of this indifference the organisation has not been able to fight “the individualistic trend and increasing bureaucratisation of the organisation”.This has hurt internal democracy in the organisation, he said.

Citing an example of “opportunistic anti-Communist habit”, Huda said: “The tendency to suppress information/disclosure of actual income with a view to depriving the party of its receivable levies is increasing even among the senior party functionaries.”

He said “this tendency has already adversely affected and weakened the party.”

He said it had not been possible for the party yet to organise a system which would put a check on the party MPs and MLAs who are enjoying the facilities of parliamentary democracy but were not capable of delivering. “Thus even 21 years after the Salkia Plenum these organisational weaknesses have stayed on to haunt the party,” he regretted.

Huda, who also urged the party leaders to look for an answer why the Communist movement could not expand in states other than Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura since 1920, said unless “the party undertakes self-analysis, it will not be able to consolidate its gains.”