CPI-M admits it lost support due to ’shortcomings’

VIJAYAWADA - In an effort at soul-searching, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has admitted that people have moved away from the Left Front due to “certain shortcomings” and vowed to re-build the links.

In the political resolution adopted at the extended meeting of the central committee meeting here Monday, the party said it was in the process of correcting the shortcomings.

“The Left Front is determined to reforge links with the people who have moved away due to certain shortcomings that have been identified and are in the process of being corrected,” it said.

The resolution adopted on the last day of the three-day meet, said the party would redouble its efforts to fight back concerted anti-communist and anti-Left offensive. “Today the Indian people need deliverance from the groaning burdens being mounted by the neo-liberal economic policies.”

“The Indian people require an alternative policy trajectory that can allow India to realize its potential which it is being denied by neo-liberalism and communalism.”

The party called upon people of party-ruled West Bengal and Kerala to ensure the victory of the Left Front in the assembly elections next year.

It urged people to ensure “the success of the Left Front in West Bengal and the LDF in Kerala and, thus, advance further the efforts to create a better India for its people”.

“The assembly elections in May 2011 in West Bengal and Kerala will be a major battle between the forces representing the interests of the working people, social justice, secularism and our country’s sovereignty and the forces which are representing the interest of the big capitalists, landlords, the rich and the vested interests that seek a strategic alliance with imperialism and who use communalism, ultra-Left anarchy and divisive politics to achieve their objectives,” said the resolution on the forthcoming elections in West Bengal and Kerala.

“The Indian ruling classes have mounted a concerted offensive against the CPI-M, in its strongest bastions, in order to weaken the resistance to their unbridled loot through the neo-liberal economic trajectory,” it said.

The party alleged that an alliance of all “reactionary forces” led by the Trinamool Congress was sought to be forged in West Bengal to defeat the Left Front in the assembly elections.

“All rightwing forces, including the communal and fundamentalist elements, foreign funded NGOs and corporate media have joined the Maoist-backed TMC in this effort,” it said

“These reactionary offensives against the CPI-M and the powerful Left and democratic movements in West Bengal and Kerala will have to be met squarely in order to defend the rights of the people and to improve their livelihood,” the resolution added.