KOZHIKODE: Despite the poll debacle in the recently held Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the state committee of the party is hopeful of ending the stagnation that has gripped the organisation in the Hindi heartland for the past many years.S P Kashyap, secretary of the CPM, Uttar Pradesh state committee, admits the fact that the CPM in Uttar Pradesh is in a “stagnant state” for many years. Kasyap, a professor in History and Political Science at RBS College took voluntary retirement in the year 1992 for devoting his entire life for the party. A bachelor, he is now embarked on a mission to build the party in the Hindi belt. Being the Central Committee member of the party, Kashyap is included in the sub-committee for education, constituted by the party at national level.Explaining the plans for the expansion of the party, he expressed his confidence, “Rome was not built in a day. But in a few years, we can say that now UP is on the march and we will break the stagnation”. Terming the performance of the CPM at the UP Assembly polls as totally ‘disappointing’, Kasyap added that the goonda raj would be reinstated in UP and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, the new political face in the state may follow the steps of his father Mulayam Singh and previous Mayawati regime of implementing anti-people policies in the state.“Most of the bourgeois parties in UP are corporate houses like Mulayam and Son’s and Ajit Singh and his son. People are not casting vote instead they are voting for caste,” he said. On the downfall of the party in this heartland, Kasyap said that in the case of the CPM, the downfall can be attributed to four things --- caste, money, mafia and criminalisation of politics. “Today CPM’s cadre strength is around 6,000 in UP. To bring back the people to the party fold, we are planning to launch an effective agitation on the main issues affecting the people in rural and urban UP.Rather than a political or economical movement, a social movement should take place at the grassroots level, one like the movement led by Sree Narayana Guru in Kerala, he added.
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