E P Jayarajan
He said, “Since 2016, minorities had found CPM as their protectors, but the propaganda campaign by UDF and BJP against this could not be resisted effectively.
Local and area committees have also failed to trace and rectify their mistakes,” Jayarajan said. He added that the “wrong tendencies” of some individuals are also affecting the party. There are allegations that the CPM is a party that approaches people only for collecting money,” he said. Opposition UDF had misused the Sabarimala issue to create communal polarisation,” the senior CPM functionary said. This also reduced public support to the party and weakened the relevance of the party as a Left-wing force,” Jayarajan said.
Jayarajan was speaking after inaugurating the organising committee formation meeting for the party’s proposed extended district committee meeting in Kannur. “A large number of party branch committees are not functioning effectively. Party members are failing to fulfil their responsibilities. “This has kept people away from the party. “Further, we totally failed to counter the propaganda campaign against the party, including in the Palestine issue. Our support to Palestine was portrayed as an attempt to appease Muslims. Further, organisational weaknesses and mistakes in candidature selection were used against the party by opponents. He added that losing power is not the main problem for CPM, but the decline in vote share is a serious matter. “Our own voters cast vote against us. The party top brass failed to address this,” Jayarajan added.
Kannur : Senior CPM functionary E P Jayarajan on Friday said his party is facing serious organisational weaknesses, resulting in it being unable to effectively resist attacks from its political opponents.