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Plan campaign: CPI(M) rejects charges

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 11. The CPI(M) State secretariat has comprehensively rejected all the charges that had been levelled against the party and its leaders, particularly T. M. Thomas Isaac, MLA, in relation to the People's Plan Campaign in recent weeks, but said the party had already asked M.P. Parameswaran, one of the founder-leaders of the Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP), to offer explanation for his controversial positions on questions of ideology.

The party secretariat, which concluded its two-day meeting here this evening, said in a communique that it `rejects with contempt' all the charges that had been raised against the Plan campaign by Padhom (a publication which has M. N. Vijayan, editor of the CPI(M) periodical Deshabhimani as its editor). The secretariat traced the origins of the Plan campaign to the experiments in decentralisation undertaken by the party and its governments since 1957 and pointed out that the document relating to the campaign was moved in the party State committee by none other than the late E. M. S. Namboodiripad.

The party communique also rejected the criticism that the Plan initiative had given fillip to a process of depoliticisation of CPI(M) cadres and said all the criticism against democratic decentralisation, attempted by the Nayanar Government between 1996 and 2001, was intended only to cover up the impressive gains of the campaign. It also brushed aside the allegation that democratic decentralisation was attempted in the State with foreign funding and said funding of the entire initiative and projects undertaken by the three-tier local bodies, costing roughly Rs. 4,000 crores over a five-year period, had come from the Plan funds of the State Government.

On the charges against the KSSP, the party communique said while the party saw special relevance for the organisation at a time when communal forces were trying to infiltrate into spheres of culture and science, it did not agree with the positions being taken by the KSSP and some of its leaders on certain vital issues.

Parishad, it conceded, was an organisation in which persons belonging to different parties worked, but pointed out that CPI(M) members who worked in the organisation had the duty to uphold the party's perspective.

The secretariat regretted that there were `serious flaws' on the part of some of the party members in this respect and cited Mr. Parameswaran's stance on ideological questions as a case in point.

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