New Delhi: The CPM’s highest decision-making body is keen to adopt the dissenting note moved by senior party leader Sitaram Yechury where the failure of the Karat leadership in “implementing’’ the party’s political tactical line properly has been held responsible for the party’s total rout at the national centrestage.
Ahead of the crucial central committee meet beginning in Hyderabad on Monday, the dissenting voices in CPM have become loud and clear with the majority view disagreeing with Mr Karat’s draft report where he has sought to pin the blame on the political-tactical line adopted at the CPM’s Jalandhar Congress in 1978 for the party’s debacle.
As per this line, the CPM was to take the lead in forming a broad anti-Congress forum of secular, democratic parties, and isolate the BJP.
The central committee is meeting to adopt the “political tactical line’’ and “political resolution’’ which will be then placed before the Party Congress in April.
If the central committee incorporates the dissenting draft report submitted by Mr Yechury, Mr Karat’s exit is imminent and it may become difficult for the Karat lobby to appoint their “own man’’ senior party leader S.R. Pillai as the next general secretary, a senior party leader from West Bengal said.
A major over-haul of the CPM is also on the cards at the party plenum to be held after the Party Congress where it will make “organisational changes’’ in the party under a new general secretary.
The “political resolution’’ to be adopted at the forthcoming central committee meet is expected focus on “left unity’’ by rallying all Left forces and roping in fringe left parties like CPI (ML)-Liberation and SUCI so that a broad Left platform emerges. The next effort should be to forge a ‘’anti Congress, anti BJP’’ front by roping in all secular democratic parties.
All eyes are now at the Hyderabad meet, where majority members are backing Mr Yechury’s alternative draft where he supported the existing political-tactical line arguing that the party surged ahead for two decades. Mr Yechury pointed out that what happened post 2004 are the mistakes that must be enumerated. The majority members share the view that the timing of withdrawal of support to UPA-I was responsible for the beginning of the party’s debacle.
