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Intense jostling ahead of CPI state secy polls
The New Indian Express
|August 17, 2025
THE 26th state conference of the Communist Party of India (CPI) commenced in Salem on Friday in the presence of party national general secretary D Raja and state secretary R Mutharasan.
The four-day conference will conclude on August 18 with the election of a new state secretary, a post that carries considerable weight in steering the party's strategy in Tamil Nadu.
As per party rules, a state secretary can serve only three consecutive three-year terms. Mutharasan, who has held the post since 2015, has already completed three terms, with his latest election in 2022 delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. He has, therefore, been at the helm for nearly a decade.
This story is from the August 17, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express.
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