CPM is facing existential crisis but it’s worried about dogma-driven approach to Congress rather than survival. That’s the debate at party’s 3-day meeting.
According to government reply in Lok Sabha, the pilot phase of PMIS is being used to test concepts, strategies and systems before a full-scale implementation of the scheme.
Order for 87 MALE drones will be split between 2 Indian firms in 64:36 ratio to ensure there are 2 independent manufacturing lines with at least 60% indigenous components.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
Is it not ironical that we are analysing the CPM and Congress, when summing up the analysis by saying that the ‘CPM’ doesn’t seem to have learnt its lessons? When has the ‘Congress’ ever shown a tendency to ‘learn any lessons’, despite electoral verdicts repeatedly hammering in such lessons? The first thing Manmohan Singh said after winning the confidence vote, courtesy a last minute reversal of policy by Mulayam against the Left abandoning the UPA in 2009 on the Nuclear Deal was that “the Communists had treated him as their bonded save all along”. Such language induced by the smugness of a just won ‘confidence vote’ is not calculated to ensure possibilities of a renewal of friendship in future. By the end of that very term, both the Congress and Manmohan Singh had to make a sorry exit. Don’t blame only the CPM.
What the CPM should learn from its Chinese comrades is : Be pragmatic. You guys seem to have forgotten how to catch mice. Aisi billi ban kar kya faayda …
Is it not ironical that we are analysing the CPM and Congress, when summing up the analysis by saying that the ‘CPM’ doesn’t seem to have learnt its lessons? When has the ‘Congress’ ever shown a tendency to ‘learn any lessons’, despite electoral verdicts repeatedly hammering in such lessons? The first thing Manmohan Singh said after winning the confidence vote, courtesy a last minute reversal of policy by Mulayam against the Left abandoning the UPA in 2009 on the Nuclear Deal was that “the Communists had treated him as their bonded save all along”. Such language induced by the smugness of a just won ‘confidence vote’ is not calculated to ensure possibilities of a renewal of friendship in future. By the end of that very term, both the Congress and Manmohan Singh had to make a sorry exit. Don’t blame only the CPM.
What the CPM should learn from its Chinese comrades is : Be pragmatic. You guys seem to have forgotten how to catch mice. Aisi billi ban kar kya faayda …