Just when the party began readying for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, they received three consecutive blows
KOLKATA: Nothing seems to be working right for the CPI(M) in West Bengal. Just when the party began readying for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, three consecutive blows of Lalgarh, Darjeeling and the Tapasi Malik verdict have virtually pushed the party against the wall.
Political analysts feel the Tapasi Malik verdict, convicting two CPI(M) leaders, would take the wind out of the CPI(M)’s plan to go to town with Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s anti-Nano and anti-industry image.
“The Tapasi Malik judgement will to a great extent weaken the CPI(M)’s new-found weapon in the form of a non-political Save Singur Nano Committee, which has been agitating against Mamata since the Nano pullout. Rather, Mamata will use the Tapasi Malik judgement as a medium to justify her movement against Singur land acquisition for Nano,” a senior political analyst said.
But the CPI(M) is not yielding yet. The party has decided to brand the CBI investigations into the Tapasi case a politically-motivated conspiracy against the West Bengal government and the Left Front. The CPI(M)’s dyed-in-the-wool central committee member and peasant activist Benoy Konar seems to have taken the lead in this counter-attack move.
According to him, the CBI was, from the very beginning, playing the role of a political conspirator in the Tapasi Malik case. “The CBI has joined hands with the opposition forces to deliberate humiliate the West Bengal government and Left Front. Even the report submitted to the court by CBI in the case was malicious,” Konar said.
Two other issues the CPI(M) is finding difficult to handle right now are the Maoist menace at Lalgarh and renewed agitation at Darjeeling by the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM). With both Lalgarh and Darjeeling becoming virtually out of bounds for the state administration, the CPI(M) and the Left Front are finding it extremely difficult to begin preparing for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
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