CPI(M) to undertake major organisational reforms at extended State Committee meeting in the shadow of mounting troubles

The extended State Committee meeting of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] in Kozhikode from Sunday (September 13, 2026) was intended as a course-correction exercise, but it will now be held in the shadow of mounting troubles for the party in the wake of the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) move to implicate Polit Bureau member and Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Assembly Pinarayi Vijayan and his son-in-law and State Secretariat member P.A. Mohamed Riyas in corruption cases.

Ironically, the perceived “political witch-hunt” against its seniormost leader could be a rallying point for the party leadership, “but questions about fostering a personality cult, displaying imperious public behaviour and related aberrations will still be raised more vociferously than in the recent past,” a leader said.