KOZHIKODE: The declining membership in various frontal organisation of the CPM, particularly in West Bengal, is mainly due to the lack of a coherent ideological-platform, ‘managerio-bureaucratic’ set up and identity crisis, besides the electoral setbacks in the recent years, feel noted political observers.Express had reported that the recruiting mechanism of the CPM would definitely be put under the scanner in the CPM’s 20th Party Congress in Kozhikode as the membership in the party and mass organisations has been showing a declining trend since the 19th Party Congress at Coimbatore in 2008. The report said the total number of members in youth, student and women fronts declined considerably and the growth rate of the total party membership figures declined from 13.8 percent to 6 per cent between the 18th and 19th Party Congresses, which was the lowest in the last 20 years.Responding on the declining membership issue, Sunandan Roy Chowdhury, lecturer of Asian Studies, Satakunta University, Finland, and the editor-publisher of the Sampark Journal of Global Understanding, West Bengal, said the CPM does not know how to relate to new social movements and it still remains a ‘patriarchal Brahminical party which touts hollow slogans’.
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