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Generational shift in CPI(M) State unit
The Hindu
More youths, especially women, are joining leadership ranks
After successfully setting an electoral lifeline by breaking the 40-year-old tradition of switching parties every five years, the CPI(M) is consciously giving a facelift to the party apparatus in Kerala.
The ongoing party meetings at the grass roots level reveal that more youth, especially women are joining the ranks of leadership. Currently, the branch and local committee meetings have concluded in majority of the districts, while area committee conferences have commenced in others.
The election of 19-year-old S. Subhalakshmi and 21-year-old Jaseema Dasthakeer as branch secretaries of Vilakkuvettam in Punalur and Vayalikkada in Chathannur respectively has already brought the focus on the paradigm shift in the party. Hundreds of women occupy positions of branch secretaries and an increasing number of women have been elected local committee secretaries across the State.