New Delhi: The two-day-long national executive meeting of the Communist Party of India (CPI) on Monday conceded in New Delhi that the Left Front is facing a continuing organisational decline in West Bengal. Significantly, such admission of the party's poor strength at the grassroots level proves that the Left Front need to do a lot to improve its position in Trinamool Congress (TMC) ruled State.
"This political debacle speaks of the continuing organisational decline of the party in the State for long. We feel that our party as well as the left needs to do a serious rethinking of its position as this is the first time that there is not a single representative of the Left win in the West Bengal Assembly election," the CPI said in its resolution adopted after the two-day-long national executive meeting in New Delhi.
The party discussed in detail its result in the recently held Assembly elections in five states including West Bengal, Assam, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. "West Bengal state council of our party has reviewed the election results and has identified its mistakes and moving for course correction," the CPI said. Referring to the Assam election, the resolution has pointed out that the failure of the grand alliance in taking the jailed activist Akhil Gogoi with it cost it dearly.
It may be mentioned here that under the umbrella of the grand alliance (Mahajot) Congress, CPI, AIUDF, BPF fought together against the BJP. The grand alliance, however, failed to bring peasant leader and President of Raijor Dol Akhil Gogoi under its umbrella as Gogoi was opposed to the idea of inducting AIUDF under the grand alliance.
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The opposition alliance bagged 50 seats in the 126 member Assam Assembly. However, CPI national general secretary D Raja said that the party did well in Assembly elections in other States.
"We did well in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. We did well in Puducherry as well. We are confident that in the coming days such alliance will dethrone BJP from power," Raja told ETV Bharat.
Meanwhile, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Monday has asked Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) to take a final call on any possible alliance with like-minded parties ahead of the Assembly by-election in six seats. APCC president Bhupen Bora told ETV Bharat that the central leadership of Congress has given full authority to the APCC to decide its course of action.
"As of now, we have decided to contest the Assembly by-poll on our own," said Bora. The APCC president called on AICC in-charge of Assam Jitendra Singh in New Delhi and discussed the party's strategy for the Assembly by-poll. Meanwhile, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has also been discussing BJP's strategy for the Assembly by-poll with the central leadership.
During the day, Sarma called on Union Minister for Shipping and Highways Sarbananda Sonowal and discuss the forthcoming election. Sarma is also likely to meet BJP president JP Nadda in New Delhi to discuss party candidates for the coming by-poll later this evening.
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