CPM yet to come out of Karat shadow

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January 2, 2016
HVR Sports   48865235 CPM yet to come out of Karat shadow

CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury has set some organisational targets for a party that badly needs mass support to make a comeback in national politics. However, delegates present in the four-day organisational stock taking at the Kolkata Plenum didn’t find anything that could hasten the Left turnaround. Yechury holds the top party post but the organisational key still lies with Prakash Karat.
It was Karat who placed the organisational report for three hours at the inaugural day of the plenum, it was he who summed up the discussions on organisational report that is usually done by the party general secretary. Yechury was left to place the 15-page organisational resolution. Karat’s overwhelming presence in the show didn’t go down well among the party delegates especially from Bengal. They wonder how far the CPM would be able to take a flexible tactical line if Karat still holds the key. Some were busy discussing probable candidates for the 2016 assembly polls.
So what all did the Kolkata Plenum decide upon? The party decided to improve its “independent strength by adopting a mass line”, strengthen the party’s intervention capacities, strengthen Left unity in a bid to forge Left and democratic unity. “We have to combat all deviations inside our party. The key to the process is party unity. We have to protect it like the pupil of our eye,” the CPM general secretary said. Yechury also laid due emphasis on induction of youth in party committees along with women and dalits. “Our party has a vision and a better corruption-free culture to offer to the youth,” Yechury said. The party will work on ways to induct youth and submit a time-bound report on the youth front within a year. It was also decided that the party will make fresh job distribution for central committee and politburo members in response to suggestions from delegates.
CPM also took stock of the party line adopted in all these years since Salkia Plenum and coined it differently — revolutionary party with a mass line instead of mass revolutionary party. All other things such as devising the party’s tactic for the forthcoming assembly polls, carving out the main electoral slogan, or initiating alliance talks have been left to the respective party state committees with the politburo reserving its right of approval.

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