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CPI(M) all-India meet to debate electoral reverses in WB, Kerala

Buffeted by electoral setbacks in West Bengal and Kerala, the CPI(M) 20th party Congress is beginning here on Wednesday to debate electoral reverses of the party.

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Buffeted by electoral setbacks in West Bengal and Kerala, the CPI-M 20th party Congress is beginning here on Wednesday to debate electoral reverses of the party.

The 734 delegates, 70 observers and 11 senior partymen gathering here for the six-day event will have to introspect on its reverses and ways to overcome them, especially in West Bengal where Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress made history, breaking CPI-M's 34-year stranglehold.

After its narrow miss in Kerala in last year's assembly polls, the party is now only left with a state government in Tripura.

The growth of the party in other states in the country is also minimal.

According to CPI-M sources, the congress is also to deliberate on the draft of the ideological resolution which closely examines the political and economic developments all over the world since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The party has set as its prime agenda the fight against neo-liberal economic policies detrimental to the interests of the nation.

"Imperialist offensive has sharply intensified in all spheres threatening the party's strategic objective of human emancipation and liberation," the draft resolution says.

The fight against growth of communal forces disrupting the unity of people in the country by dividing them on communal lines is also high on the party's agenda, sources said.

"There will be threadbare discussions on CPI-M's ideological line in the party congress. The party's organisational work since the last Congress in Coimbatore in 2008, will also be reviewed," party state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan said.

According to CPI-M state secretary and PB member Pinarayi Vijayan, the Central Committee would meet here tomorrow to finalise the agenda of the Congress.

There would not be any foreign delegates in the congress this year as leaders of Communist parties are now in constant touch with one another.

Interestingly, the all-India meet is taking place without fraternal delegates at a time when the Indian Left has taken on as a key campaign theme the crisis of capitalism and resurgence of working class movements in many parts of the world, including the 'Occupy Wallstreet' campaign in America.

When the party held its state meet here in February, its central slogan was "Marx is correct."

The march carrying the flag to be hoisted at the congress venue, which began from Punnapra-Vayalar martyrs' column in Alappuzha on March 31, would reach here tomorrow.

The flagpole march for the event started from Kayyur in Kasaragod yesterday. The march carrying the torch to be lit at the venue would start from Onchiyam in Kozhikode district this afternoon, party sources said. The three marches would converge at MK Pandhe Nagar on the beach tomorrow.

The congress flag would be hoisted at the beach tomorrow evening. The torch would be lit at the congress venue (Surjeet-Jyoti Basu Nagar) at Tagore Hall by CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat at 7pm tomorrow.

The congress will conclude on April 9 with a march by 25,000-strong red volunteers and a mass rally.

The city has been witnessing a series of events, including exhibitions, seminars and talks in connection with the party congress for the last two weeks.

 

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