K. Rafeeq elected CPI(M) Wayanad district secretary
The Hindu
CPI(M) district conference in Wayanad elects K. Rafeeq as district secretary, forms new 27-member committee.
A district conference of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] that came to a close at Sulthan Bathery in Wayanad district in Kerala on Monday (December 23, 2024) elected K. Rafeeq as the party’s district secretary.
The meeting also elected a 27-member district committee. The fresh faces in the district committee included P.K. Ramachandran, C. Yoosuf, N.P. Kunhimol, P.M. Nazar, and P.K. Pushpan.
Mr. Rafeeq is currently the secretary of the DYFI district committee. He was also the former district secretary and district president of the SFI.
More than 2.6 lakh village and ward volunteers in Andhra Pradesh, once celebrated as the government’s grassroots champions for their crucial role in implementing welfare schemes, are now in a dilemma after learning that their tenure has not been renewed after August 2023 even though they have been paid honoraria till June 2024. Disowned by both YSRCP, which was in power when they were appointed, and the current ruling TDP, which made a poll promise to double their pay, these former volunteers are ruing the day they signed up for the role which they don’t know if even still exists