Summary:
We will contest the parliamentary election next year," said state CPI secretary Samudra Gupta Today, the party hardly has 100-odd members in Shillong. My family members were active members of CPI. Contesting the assembly election entails a huge expenditure and we are not in a position to bear the expenses. I inculcated the ideology from them," said Shankar Dutta (50), a CPI member since 1986. "We neither have sufficient funds nor cadre strength to contest the election this time..