CPM conclave: Brace for Sitaram Yechury vs Prakash Karat battle in April

Karat's draft is more specific on this. It states the CPI (M) should defeat the BJP 'without entering into any understanding or alliance with the Congress'

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) is headed for a showdown between party chief Sitaram Yechury and predecessor Prakash Karat, and their respective factions, when its party conclave, the highest decision making body, meets in Hyderabad this April.

On Sunday, the three-day Central Committee meeting of the CPI(M) ended in Kolkata with the Karat faction winning the current round of jousting over the party’s electoral line. Yechury’s draft on the ‘political tactical line’ for the next three years was defeated by 55 to 31 votes. Again underlining the divide between the party’s Kerala and West Bengal units.

Now, the draft