Present CPM could not attract more people.

The CPM now recognizes the need to build up the party image in India especially in W Bnegal and Kerala. The present mid-level leaders are in the grip of lavish life as they get sufficient money from various sources like Sand –Lottery –Quotation-Realty mafias- is the findings of party’s top level leaders. Marxist ideology is a past story for many despite the warning from idyllic leaders like V S Achuthanandan. Achuthanandan, according to neo-liberalists is a ‘class enemy’ destined to sit in corner and that is why he was sent out of parties highest decision making body viz., the Politburo. This is regrettable. CPM has failed to identify what the actual difficulty with the party is. And that is why party has asked its leaders to change their way of life, which seems rather impossible for many.

Nevertheless, the new CPM proposal that functionaries should declare assets to the party at a time is a welcome step. And If it is not done urgently, the kith and kin of many party leaders should become millionaires with in a fortnight. It is customary on the part of one to transfer his wealth to immediate relatives before declaring assets. We have finest example like leader K Karunakaran, of course from Congress party, who declared once that his only asset as a gold ring connoting that all his work as politician and CM of the state earned him little. Undoubtedly, one who closely watches the life style many comrades could see not only top level leaders but the local level also posses huge wealth and that is what alienated voters in Kerala and W Bengal from the party .

Further, declaring assets is not a big business. It is only a tricky way to legitimize the black money amassed by hook or crook. It is a fact that comrades are being influenced by “bourgeois” tendencies and “lifestyle deviations”. The proposal for asset declaration is only a treatment over skin and it would bring no substantial improvement for the party to attract the common people.

Could the party identify and avoid those functionaries who had played lead role with sand-lottery-sex-money-land and quotation mafia? If yes, then the party can attract common people. And for that the present leadership should go.

JW