Communist Party of India (Marxist) State unit secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has said that the newly formed Red Volunteer Corps of the party by re-constituting the existing red volunteers will be serving the public with voluntary initiatives in various fields, including palliative care, garbage disposal programmes, and organic farming activities.
Inaugurating the district-level march of the volunteers here on Tuesday, Mr. Balakrishnan said the volunteers would be given training in martial arts and yoga. Earlier, the red volunteers were used for holding marches at party conferences, he said adding that the idea of the new corps of red volunteers was conceived to transform the volunteers as a permanent system with continuing training programmes.
In his address, party district secretary P. Jayarajan said the new volunteer corps was not modelled on the RSS as had been alleged by some sections. As it was a fact that only the CPI(M) could encounter the RSS, the party did not require its volunteer corps to be modelled on the RSS, he said.
CPI(M) ideologue Berlin Kunhananthan Nair, who had been taken into the party years after he was expelled from it, was present to watch the march.
CPI(M) to train volunteers in
martial arts
and yoga
