Let there be more democracy and more light in the CPM.

The CPM in Kerala and elsewhere in India have drawn a greater circle where the faithful have no entry. And innocentbeleivers by mistake or chance entered into this circle have gasped a lot. Dr K S Manoj is one in that category; nevertheless he escaped out of the circle. He will paste his surname ‘kurisinkal’ along with his name soon. The name ‘kurisinkal’ was for some time in cold storage because higher ups in Marxist party are explicitly against such symbols even though some of them visit Kadampuzha for flower offering tributes. Still hypocritically there are a few in the party with belief in both God and Marx.

The silence of CPM leaders on whether its cadres essentially have to be non-believers is conspicuous. If they are strict in implementing disbelief in God they would have no followers from Muslims and Christians. Many Hindus now working in Marxist party conduct Sapthaham and Navaham and if the party is adamant in the agnostic stance it will lose some them too. There will be only little buyers for the document inscribing “members and elected representatives of the party shall neither organise religious functions nor observe religious rituals”.

It is quite awful in Kerala that the Church and the CPM come face to face on many occasions. When the CPM is inside the circle drawn the Church is outside it and occupies a wider area. The Church never asks its faithful to work or not work with a particular political party. Then why the party puts stipulations on believers of Church? Since this question is very relevant in the present context the party should stop playing hide and seek on the issue of religion and clarify whether members can go to Church or organize Sapthaham or Punyaham.
Let there be democracy and more light in the CPM.

K A Solaman