Bengal CPM blames it on Third Front
May 25, 2009 left
Overlooking the Opposition’s role in its debacle, the Bengal unit of the CPM has instead concluded that voters’ rejection of the idea of Third Front has led to its worst performance in the recent Lok Sabha polls.
Party’s poll managers on Sunday sweated it out at the state committee meeting to identify the reasons why 3.5 per cent of their committed voters voted for the Trinamool-Congress alliance in the state…More
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Control-C and Control-V works in IT, not in politics: CPI
May 22, 2009 left
The Communist Party of India (Marxist), on Thursday, said the move to create a third political alternative cannot be a “cut and paste arrangement” on the eve of the elections and can emerge only through sustained popular struggles.
“The CPI (M) had all along, in the Political Resolutions of successive Party Congresses articulated the need for the creation of a third political alternative that can effect a progressive shift in the policy trajectory of the country. Such an alternative cannot, obviously, be a cut and paste arrangement on the eve of elections. This can only emerge through sustained popular struggles. There are no short cuts,” it said in an editorial in the party organ People’s Democracy…More
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Third Front had no juicy carrots: Karat
May 22, 2009 left
In its first formal admission that its pre-poll strategy — of which CPM general secretary Prakash Karat was the chief architect — was a failure, the CPM Politburo today admitted that the Third Front was seen as neither “credible nor viable.”
After an eight-hour meeting yesterday, where leaders from West Bengal were said to attributed their rout to the Third Front fancy and the decision to withdraw support to the UPA, the Politburo decided to share the blame saying “state-specific factors” were also responsible for the defeat…More
We had doubts about third front: CPI
May 21, 2009 left
CPI on Wednesday launched an indirect attack on CPM, presumably against West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and CPM general secretary Prakash Karat, stressing that there was a “need for humility and total absence of arrogance in the behaviour and attitude of all Left leaders and activists in relation to people.”
CPI sources said, “In West Bengal we have been pointing out the arrogant behaviour of Bhattacharjee during Singur and Nandigram but CPM never listened to us. We had doubts about third front also.”
This seems to be a reflection of long-felt anger of smaller Left parties against CPM as the third front idea was aggressively pushed by Karat…More
Not even third-rate front
May 17, 2009 left
The ‘Third Front’ dream has been shattered. With the Left, its fulcrum, itself weakening, the alternative formation came down like a
house of cards even before taking shape.
While the Left’s disgraceful defeat reduced it to political inconsequence, the performance of the other players of the group—TDP and AIADMK—did not reach the expected levels. The AIADMK could not reverse electoral fortunes in Tamil Nadu and the TDP failed to wipe out the Congress in Andhra Pradesh.
Mr Karat and company had hinged their calculations on three factors—neither the Congress nor BJP would get the numbers, NDA’s allies may follow the BJD and disaffection of the UPA’s allies towards the Congress.
The unravelling of Mr Prakash Karat’s aspiration had already begun before the poll verdict was out. The TRS joined the NDA brigade. JD-S leader HD Devegowda’s son Kumaraswamy paid a visit to the Congress headquarters. AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa had kept her post-poll options open. ..More
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