CPI(M) meet reviews K’taka & Singur debacle

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New Delhi, May 29 : In its first meeting after the nineteenth congress held at Coimbatore, the two-day CPI(M) central committee meet, starting Thursday, has taken up for discussion the political situation after Karnataka polls along with the party’s defeat in Singur and Nandigram. The party will also look at smaller Left parties’ demand to review its support to the UPA government at the Centre. The party had already said the policies of the UPA government paved the way for the defeat of “secular forces” in the southern state.

“There is a need to arrest growing public discontent against the government and to ensure that communal forces do not benefit from it. The Karnataka verdict is a clear indication of the discontent due to price rise and continuing agrarian crisis,” CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury told reporters here on the sidelines of the meeting.

“The central committee is discussing the report on the recent political developments which include the Karnataka elections,” he added. The meeting will also constitute a central secretariat for the party and fix responsibilities for politburo members and other senior leaders.

Asked about the government’s effort to materialise the Indo-US nuclear deal, Yechury hoped that the Centre would not take the decision, as the Left-UPA committee was still discussing the matter. “Then why is the committee for? If the government is to decide on its own then why have they called a meeting of the Left-UPA committee in June?” Yechury asked. The next meeting of the Left-UPA panel is scheduled to be held on June 11. Meanwhile, in an editorial in the forthcoming issue of the People’s Democracy , Yechury said people expected the UPA government to deliver on CMP promises.

“Whether it is the question of rural employment, tribal rights or increased expenditures on education and health, the benefits that should have accrued to the people are continuously delayed both through administrative obstacles and tardy implementation. The CPI(M)’s criticism of the government is mainly on this score of non-implementation of the CMP promises,” he said in the article.