Kozhikode, Sept. 9 -- As the CPI-M prepares for its crucial, high-stakes extended State Committee meeting in Kozhikode in mid-September, a bitter ideological war has erupted within its topmost ranks over a defining question: Did the party fail the people, or did the people fail the party?Following its catastrophic defeat in the Keralam Assembly elections, the CPI-M leadership finds itself fractured by a contentious blame game that threatens to derail its upcoming "rectification campaign."The extended State Committee meeting, from September 13-15, is intended to finalize a massive corrective roadmap, yet political analysts and party insiders remain skeptical about whether it can deliver real answers.
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