Split in the CPI debilitates the movement

CPI State Council Secretary Pannyan Raveendran today said the split in the Communist Party of India in 1964 had debilitated the movement in the country.
Inaugurating the 39th State convention of the Joint Council, trade union wing of the CPI 's State Government employees here today, he said that the split had stifled the growth of the Communist movement.
It was most unfortunate that a Communist party has claimed that split had strengthened it and that party was busy in celebrating its Golden Jubilee which was well and good, he said.
Raveendran said that the split in the CPI led to the birth of CPI(M). Thirty two communist parties were after the split, most of them left CPM following difference of opinion.

He claimed that common man's expectation was in the left political parties . Hence it was high time to unite with all the splinter groups of communists in the country and hold effective discussions with this in view.
He ruled out even a remote possibility of LDF forming a ministry in Kerala with the support of K M Mani's Kerala Congress as CPI did not support such an exigency at all. The LDF could not form a ministry without the support of the CPI in Kerala, he said.