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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | CPM to Bengal unit: target graft, not Didi

CPM to Bengal unit: target graft, not Didi

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published Published on Mar 6, 2011   modified Modified on Mar 6, 2011

The CPM’s top leadership has advised comrades in poll-bound Bengal to focus on corruption and price rise and how the Centre was playing with the “livelihood of the poor” but warned against targeting Mamata Banerjee personally.

“Too much attack” on the rival could prove counterproductive, a top leader said.

The decision to concentrate on graft and price rise came as the CPM politburo and central committee met in New Delhi today. Sources said the central leadership urged all state units, particularly Bengal, to highlight the twin issues to reconnect with agricultural and industrial workers.

The central leadership believes that the working classes, the party’s core support base, deserted the CPM after Nandigram and Singur.

Besides Bengal, Kerala is the other Left-ruled state where elections will be held next month.

The central leaders, however, fear that focusing too much on Mamata may not be a good strategy. “Too much attack on Mamata seems to be generating sympathy for her among the masses. We feel the state leaders should refrain from it,” a politburo member said.

So the Bengal comrades have been advised not to attack Mamata personally but to focus on her stint as railway minister.

“The Bengal unit has been urged to tell the voters that Mamata lacks administrative abilities and it shows in the railways, in a mess under her,” a central committee leader said.

Politburo member and Bengal minister Nirupam Sen appeared to voice the central leadership’s line of approach.

Asked what the party’s main issues in next month’s state elections would be, Sen said: “Corruption and price rise.”

“Corruption and price rise under the UPA-II government is playing with the livelihood of the poor. We will tell agricultural and industrial workers how the Left had been their vanguard,” he added.

Asked if the issues against the UPA-II government would strike a chord among people as local issues usually dominated state polls, Sen said: “Certainly”.

“Every citizen is aware about the big corruption cases under the UPA-II government. They have to be told that corruption was leading to price rise and the Left can only fight it and protect the interests of the working class,” Sen said, adding that the focus would be on agricultural and industrial workers.

In an interview in party mouthpiece People’s Democracy, Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had also spoken on similar lines. “We will go forward with our developmental programme. That will be our major plank. We will consolidate our success in agriculture,” he had replied to a question on what would be the main campaign issues.

The Telegraph, 6 March, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110306/jsp/nation/story_13673952.jsp


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