Economic Times carried an interesting article on 30 May 2009 on Page 3
In West Bengal CPM claims a party membership of 3.21 lakh and a mass organization membership of 3.43 crore.
But CPM got only 33.1% of the vote share.
About 70 to 75% of the states 4.89 crore electorate cast its vote this year. This means CPM did not get votes to a large extent from its mass organization members.
Reason: I keep arguing is that party members (Of all political parties in India) are not meeting nonparty people systematically.
In Kerala, the party membership is over 3.64 lakh and mass organization membership is around 1.42 crore. Kerala's electorate is two crore. Around 60% voted and CPM got 30.48%. Once again party members could not even mobilise their mass organization members.
The combined membership of all mass organizations belonging to CPM increased to 6,17,93,166 at the time 2008 party congress. The earlier party congress figure was 4,91,54,970.
Is there a need for party members to develop intimate contact with nonparty persons. Yes it is there. People in general will welcome if political party members take interest and meet them regularly.
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