CPI(M) to review poll preparations in five states at key meet

CPI(M) would review preparations for the upcoming assembly elections in five states and the emerging political scenario at a three-day meeting of its top leaders here from Friday, party sources said today.
Having given a call to join hands with democratic and secular parties in these states to put up a non-Congress, non -BJP platform, the leaders would deliberate on such emerging alliances in the poll-bound states.
While the CPI(M) Politburo would meet on Friday, its around 90-member Central Committee would meet for the next two days to discuss and approve a draft report on the prevailing political scenario.
The CPI(M) has already forged an alliance in Rajasthan with CPI, Samajwadi Party and JD(S), while a similar platform is on the verge of being finalised in Chhattisgarh, the sources said.

The draft report of the Politburo is likely to focus on the precarious financial situation, the growing communal incidents in various parts of the country, including in Jammu region and Bihar, as well as the growing demands for separate states following the government's decision on Telangana, the sources said.
The recently-concluded panchayat elections in West Bengal and the blockade of state secretariat in Kerala launched by the CPI(M)-led LDF against the Oommen Chandy government on the solar panel scam would also come up for review.

Decisions on preparations for the upcoming elections to urban local bodies in West Bengal and the volatile situation in Kerala are also likely to be taken.

The rural poll results in Bengal, where the Left Front was again decimated by the ruling Trinamool Congress, would also be reviewed.
Alleging that these elections were not free and fair with the Trinamool winning nearly 6,500 seats unopposed, the CPI(M) has staged protests across the country against violence allegedly unleashed by Mamata Banerjee's party in the state.