CPI-M will extinct under Yechury, Tripura to be Left free in 2018: TMC

The Trinamool Congress on Thursday claimed that Tripura will be free from the Left parties by 2018 adding that under the leadership Sitaram Yechury the left-wing parties will become irrelevant in the country.

Mukul Roy, TMC national vice-president, while addressing people at function here likened the Sitaram Yechury led- CPI (M) to that of Communist Party in Russia under Mikhail Gorbachev's leadership.

"In 2018 Tripura will be free from Left. You can note it down that in coming five years CPIM will turn in to rare tribal species and people will say there was a thing called CPIM," Roy said.

"As under Mikhail Gorbachev leadership, the Soviet Russia's Communist Party went down, similarly under Sitaram Yechury the Communist Party will become irrelevant in India.. there will be no Communist Party here," Roy said during a public address after inaugurating a TMC party office here.

He further said the CPI-M is an irrelevant party and it has lost the status of a national party now.

"It (CPI-M) has forgotten class struggle and does not raise the slogan of people's democratic revolution, it would become extinct under its general secretary Sitaram Yechury," he said.

Roy further praised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for being the leader, who could throw out Left Front out of power in the state.

"The CPI-M is again waiting for splitting vertically and I can foresee that in coming days, people here will walk with posters that I no more support CPIM," he added.

The TMC leader said his party will wrest power from Left Front in the 2018 assembly elections in Tripura to provide development and good governance in the state.

Roy said TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to visit Tripura on August 9.

He also attended an 'iftary' party on the occasion of Ramadan here which was attended by various senior leaders here including the MLAs of Congress, who recently joined TMC in protest against the 'Congress-CPIM' alliance in Bengal.