THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The CPM State Committee recommended that strict disciplinary guidelines be implemented for CPM ministers, their departments, and members of the personal staff of ministers. It stated that the goal should be to ensure corruption-free and clean governance. The forty-eight-page guideline stated that the aim was to have constructive governance that can build a new Kerala. This was discussed yesterday.

The guideline stipulated that actions that are insulting to the party and the people should not be on the part of ministers or party members. Those who are appointed as personal staff should not be involved in controversies. It stated that the public should be treated with the utmost care and love. The State Committee also suggested that there should be no intervention leading to allegations of corruption.

In the light of the Karuvannur Co-operative Bank scam, the state committee also proposed to strengthen the working of the party sub-committee to oversee the cooperative societies. Party monitoring and control over the activities of cooperative societies should be tightened. The party also suggested that those accused in connection with the co-operative sector, no matter how high-ranking, should be convinced that stern action would be taken.

Matters related to party conventions will come before the state committee today. Other details of the state conference scheduled to be held in Ernakulam next February may be discussed today.