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
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