The party is reconciled to the fact that the ruling Left Front constituents such as Forward Bloc and RSP will fight the panchayat elections next year on their own.
KOLKATA: The CPI(M) in West Bengal is preparing for a political life without allies. The party is reconciled to the fact that the ruling Left Front constituents such as Forward Bloc and RSP will fight the panchayat elections next year on their own.
Their anti-CPI(M) stand has hardened so much that even the lure of additional seats is unlikely to bring them around. Hence, the CPI(M) is readying a blueprint to protect its turf in the face of an overt rebellion by its allies.
The game plan to counter the opposition within will be given shape in three steps —through the CPI(M)’s district, state and national-level conferences that will be completed over the next three months.
The CPI(M) has evolved a line to counter its allies, but only partly. On Nandigram and Singur, the party is confident of itself as it will try to project Forward Bloc and RSP as anti-development and hand-in-glove with the Trinamool Congress. But on the accusation of ideological deviations, the CPI(M) does not yet have a clear line to defend itself.
RSP and Forward Bloc are expected to hit the panchayat campaign trail charging the CPI(M) of following industrial policies dictated by “capitalist and imperialist forces”, citing that while the state government is laying out the red carpet for private capital, small and medium-scale enterprises, the public distribution system and farm output are in shambles.
Yet another Left Front ally, the CPI, in a draft resolution to be placed at its state conference, has charged the government with protecting the interests of national and international private capital and hence losing support of the electorate.
A senior state committee member of the CPI(M) said while Nandigram and Singur could be tackled organisationally, charges of ideological deviations in chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s industrial policy need an aggressive political initiative since such accusations are being accepted even by a large section of traditional Left supporters in urban areas.
d_ajay@dnaindia.net
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