Lesson after loss: Bengal CPI(M) going back to basics

In the hour of crisis, the ruling CPI(M) in West Bengal is trying to go back to the basics. The party’s state committee, following its two-day meeting to review the party’s debacle in the recent Lok Sabha polls, realised that after being in power for the last 32 years the party had lost touch with the masses.

The party thinks since it had lost touch with the people, it failed to meet the challenges thrown in by the Congress-Trinamool Congress combine in the elections. The party organisation has failed to respond adequately to the anti-Left propaganda unleashed by the Opposition Trinamool Congress in the state. The Left-ruled state government also failed to deliver on the pro-poor programmes. Now to regain its mass base, the party wants to press for the pro-poor programmes and schemes in the state.

While commenting on the deliberations and the findings by the party for its electoral failure, CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose has admitted that a section of party workers have indulged into non-communist lifestyle and activities. With a tacit reference to growing corruption within the party, Bose said that a section of party workers fell victim of the culture of ‘neo-liberal society’.