CPI meet next week to finalise electoral strategy

CPI, which has decided to contest the upcoming assembly polls in four of the five states, would finalise its electoral strategy at a meeting of its top leadership here next week.
A three-day meeting of its 150-member National Council would begin from Monday in which the broad electoral strategy and alliances for the state elections would be given a final shape, party sources said.
The meeting would also deliberate on firming up a broad-based platform of Left and secular forces to take on both the UPA and the BJP in the assembly and 2014 Lok Sabha polls, they said.
It would also review preparations for the assembly elections with the party having already decided to put up candidates in Rajasthan, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in alliance with other Left and secular parties.

Such a unity of Left, secular and progressive parties was paramount for fighting the RSS-BJP which was trying to take electoral advantage of people's disillusionment with the Manmohan Singh government's "misrule", they said.
The CPI leadership would also be attending the anti- communal meet being held on October 30 in which several parties like the SP, JD(U), AIADMK, NCP and the Left would participate.
Besides the recent communal incidents in different parts of the country and the focus on BJP's Prime Ministerial nominee Narendra Modi, the economic situation marked by unabated inflation, devaluation of rupee, burgeoning unemployment and corruption cases would also be discussed at the meeting, the sources said.