The debate on the supremacy of the government or the party has also come to the fore in wake of the Left Front in West Bengal lobbing the Singur ball back into the state government's court.
KOLKATA: Can the government in China function without the Chinese Communist Party? The rather obvious answer seems to have been obfuscated among Indian communists. So much so, that CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat in a note to his party's state-level committees has had to underline the supremacy of the party over the government controlled by it.
Cautioning that its governments in the three states of West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura, the general secretary said these governments will have to adhere to party lines or else it could have an adverse impact on the CPI(M)'s pan-India ambitions.
Though Karat does not mention Singur or Nandigram, his attempt to reinforce supremacy of the party is seen as a response to several CPI(M) central committee members who recently raised their voices saying that Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government's handling of issues like Singur and Nandigram had caused severe embarrassment to the party's attempt to initiate movements across the country, as dress rehearsal to Lok Sabha elections two years down the line.
The debate on the supremacy of the government or the party has also come to the fore in wake of the Left Front in West Bengal lobbing the Singur ball back into the state government's court. The Left Front, dominated by the CPI(M), said that issues raised by opposition were administrative in nature and hence it was for the government to take a final call.
This has raised the hackles of minor Left Front allies like RSP, Forward Bloc and the CPI which sees this as aiming to marginalise them, at a time when they had been achieved some success in opening up dialogue with the opposition parties like the Trinamul Congress.
Ashoke Ghosh of Forward Bloc said, "Can the Chinese government take any decision without the Chinese communist party. We are there in Writer's Building and we are also there in the Left Front, but the government will have to run on direction of the Left Front."
CPI's Nandogopal Bhattacharya said, "All political and policy decisions will have to be taken by the Left Front and not the government." It is against this backdrop that the Karat note to comrades states that no state government will take any decision that will go against the CPI(M)'s national political interest.
Party sources said that CPI(M) Central Committee members have also criticised Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya's dalliance with industrialists and investors which the members said was causing embarrassments in states where the party was attempting to increase its influence.
Hence, the Karat note concludes that all decisions of the state governments controlled by the CPI(M) should serve as an example of governance across the country and therefore the need to establish supremacy of the party over the government.
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