CPI(M) to go back to the masses: Karat

CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat today said that the party in West Bengal would have to re-establish connect with the people and to reorganise itself after the drubbing in the state Assembly elections at the hands of Trinamool Congress-Congress combine.

The CPI(M), which had evidently lost touch with the general masses and failed to assess what they wanted, today decided to "go back to the masses and to work among the people in a correct manner".

Karat, who attended a two-day West Bengal state committee meeting of CPI(M) as a special invitee to discuss the reasons of the dismal results of the CPI(M)-led Left Front, said, "We have to delve deeper to scrutinise the reasons for which people voted for a change."

The party is likely to discuss the issue threadbare in the Central Committee meeting at Hyderabad next week.

"We are faced with adverse reactions at this point, but we should also not forget our achievements in the over three decades of rule in the state," he said.

Party state secretary Biman Bose said though the Left Front has got the support of over 41 per cent voters, still the slogan for change emerged victorious. He also said that a deeper analysis of the reasons for the loss would be made.

Bose, however, admitted that "the party had not been able to overcome the political, administrative and organisational weaknesses that had been talked of after the 2009 Lok Sabha elections."

The Front had done badly in the Lok Sabha polls with the CPI(M) bagging just nine seats of the Front's total of 15 seats in West Bengal.

"However, it is not that all is lost. We have to fight back and inch ahead towards regaining the support of the people who had not voted for us," Bose, who is also the Left Front chairman in the state, added.