CPI(M) now plans to reshuffle responsibilities among top leaders

After its muchawaited revamp last month, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is headed for its next leg of key restructuring — the reshuffle of organisational responsibilities among its senior leaders.

The CPI(M) politburo, which will meet on May 16 and 17, is set to distribute key responsibilities that includes looking after frontal organisations like the SFI or the All India Kishan Sabha and states, among the party’s senior leadership. “The exercise will be the next step and an important one to pursue our goal of reviving the party. We have set our policies, now we have to put the right people in the right assignments,” said a senior leader.

The ensuing politburo meeting will also be the first after the CPI(M) Party Congress in Vishakhapatanam in mid-April.

While some leaders refused to speculate on who will get what charges, younger leaders are likely to be given heavier assignments amid the thrust of the party to attract the younger population. The party has its task cut out to revive its base in West Bengal and also prepare for the upcoming assembly elections in Kerala, Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Assam next year.

Under the previous regime, for mer g eneral secretary Prakash Karat held the charge for Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. Sitaram Yechury, who was last month unanimously elected as the party general secretary of the party, was in-charge of Maharashtra and the party’s student’s wing, the SFI.