PATNA, Dec. 16 -- After massive poll drubbing in the Bihar assembly elections, one of the main opposition parties in the state, CPI-ML (Liberation), is going to hold a seven-day village-level assessment programme to know the reasons behind the poll debacle and renew the membership drive to recruit around 1.10 lakh party cadres, officials in the party said.

The weeklong programme would start from December 18 and continue till December 24 in which village meetings of the party in around 25,000 branches across the state would be held. They will be attended by party members and local cadres. On December 18, the party observed Sankalp divas to mark the death anniversary of ML's first general secretary Vinod Mishra, who died in 1998.

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