The newly-elected State secretary of CPI K. Sambasiva Rao has said that the decline in recruitment of cadre was a big challenge that the party was facing, as students and youth who constituted its target groups, were drawn to corporate education.
The problem indirectly resulted in leadership crisis in the party. “How to draw the attention of people towards the party to aid its cadre and leadership base is the concern of the party”, Mr. Rao told The Hindu in an interview.
Mr. Rao was elected State secretary of CPI at its third State conference that concluded on Wednesday. The election went into early hours of Thursday as the council members could not arrive at a consensus on the successor to former secretary Chada Venkat Reddy, necessitating voting which Mr. Rao won by 15 votes. Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao called up Mr. Rao to congratulate him.
