Buddha again skips CPM central meet
West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee once again skipped the three-day CPI(M) central committee which began here on Friday. Mr Bhattacharjee has been irregular in attending the politburo and CC meets of the party following his reported differences with the party general secretary, Mr Prakash Karat.
While the majority of the party leaders believe that the Trinamul Congress has an edge in the forthcoming Assembly polls in West Bengal, the state unit on Friday presented a report claiming that the situation was improving for the Left parties in the state.
“Positive developments are taking place in West Bengal. The response to rallies held by the chief minister has been extremely good,” a party leader said.
The Kerala unit of the party, however, said in its report that it did not expect the drubbing it received in the recent civic polls in the state. The report has apparently pointed towards the disconnect between the party leaders and the people in the state.
Apart from discussing the preparations for the forthcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal and Kerala in 2011, the central committee is expected to finalise the last leg of the rectification campaign which was launched after the party’s worst ever performance in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls.
This would include theoretical sessions to be held for all CC members where they will deliberate on various issues related to party ideology, history, economics. The sessions will begin in December and will be conducted by senior politburo members and experts in various fields.
In its ongoing rectification drive, the party has already accepted that there is an urgent need to arrest the non-communist trends in the party and stem alien trends like corruption, nepotism, the influence of money and caste. A party leader said that the newly recruited party members lack the knowledge of communist lifestyle. The rectification campaign is aimed at enhancing the “level of consciousness” among the party leaders and cadres to inculcate a “living culture” based on Communist values.
A draft report on the overall situation in Jammu and Kashmir was also tabled at the meeting by the party’s state secretary, Mohammad Yusuf Tarigami. It is likely to be taken up for a discussion on Saturday. This is for the first time after several years that the situation in the Kashmir Valley, including the recent eight-point formula of the Centre, would be discussed by the major Left party.
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