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Wednesday, Jul 16, 2025
Josephine, who entered public life through student, youth and women organisations, became a CPM member in 1978, in the aftermath of the Emergency. Her rise in the party was quick.
The Central Committee is the apex decision-making body of the left party. The Politburo on the other hand is empowered with making day-to-day political decisions, which must be ratified by the Committee.
The 69-year-old has been at the helm of the largest left party in India since the 21st Party Congress in Visakhapatnam in April 2015.
Thomas, whose ouster from the party looks imminent and entry into the Left fold a probability, has just proven his party's attempt to thwart his Kannur trip was right.
The KPCC chief wrote in his letter to the Congress supremo that KV Thomas had pre-planned his visit to Kannur.
The Tamil Nadu CM attacked the union government in his speech at the 23rd CPM Party Congress in Kannur; Congress leader KV Thomas defied his party to participate.
Both CPM and DMK are vehemently opposed to the right-wing forces in the country. Both could be part of a broader coalition against the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Though she did not name Congress specifically, it can be assumed that the age-old party is also among those that she hopes would join this collective against the BJP.
The Party Congress ratified the political line put forward by the draft political resolution that a national alternative to BJP should be found by building suitable political alliances in various States.
The KPCC is reportedly keen to straightaway expel renegade senior party leader KV Thomas rather than serving him with a perfunctory suspension order if he attends the CPM seminar.
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