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1. My view is that ordinary citizens are least concerned about party’s political resolution but they are certainly interested in party’s stand on different political issues. From their point of view, particularly from point of view of those who may have some sympathy for CPI(M) as a political party, question that needs to be asked is how relevant are CPI(m)’s policies today? One cannot forget that the party has been rejected by voters in West Bengal (WB) in two consecutive elections and recently in Tripura. Has it learnt any lesson? 2. Here, let us not forget that in WB the leftists were in power for almost three decades but still their govt. was overthrown. WB remained an industrially backward state. Trinamool Congress saw an opportunity in West Bengal to expose hollowness of leftists’ ideology. In Tripura BJP’s rightist ideology succeeded in exposing leftists’ ideology. 3. Hence my question today is this: Would CPI(M) leaders do a critical self-examination now that it is losing its voters everywhere? Also, I also think that such self-examination, without reconsideration of CPM’s basic economic agenda, would be of little assistance in today’s electoral politics.
1. My view is that ordinary citizens are least concerned about party’s political resolution but they are certainly interested in party’s stand on different political issues. From their point of view, particularly from point of view of those who may have some sympathy for CPI(M) as a political party, question that needs to be asked is how relevant are CPI(m)’s policies today? One cannot forget that the party has been rejected by voters in West Bengal (WB) in two consecutive elections and recently in Tripura. Has it learnt any lesson? 2. Here, let us not forget that in WB the leftists were in power for almost three decades but still their govt. was overthrown. WB remained an industrially backward state. Trinamool Congress saw an opportunity in West Bengal to expose hollowness of leftists’ ideology. In Tripura BJP’s rightist ideology succeeded in exposing leftists’ ideology. 3. Hence my question today is this: Would CPI(M) leaders do a critical self-examination now that it is losing its voters everywhere? Also, I also think that such self-examination, without reconsideration of CPM’s basic economic agenda, would be of little assistance in today’s electoral politics.