kolkata we have joined the ruling party we do not need to study anymore the startling statement had been made by a new entrant to the party during a recent meeting of the cpm recalled veteran party leader ashok mitra addressing a public function marking the opening of a new library of the kolkata district committee of the party on friday mitra lamented at the manner in which cpm activists were rapidly giving up their habit of studying marxist literature even the library at the alimuddin street headquarters was hardly being used said mitra he recalled the old days when the left movement was still in its infancy when communist activists often stayed up nights on end to read books on marxismleninism mitra also observed that even senior leaders nowadays did not feel the urge to attend rallies and meetings of the cpm and were more interested in getting their sons and daughters admitted to a computer training institute so that they can lap up rs 40000 worth jobs though cpm state secretary anil biswas agreed with mitra he admitted that senior leaders like himself had failed to inspire junior comrades to study it is our failure biswas admitted candidly and said that from now on party classes would be held regularly the syllabus would also be adopted to the changes taking place in the political scenario he said