Divide within Left: Letter to BS on Yechury and Karat battle over policy

With reference to “Clash of the titans” (January 23), the ongoing personality clash between Sitaram Yechury and Prakash Karat in the Communist Party of India (Marxist) does not augur well for the future of this party whose political base is fast decimating even in states where it considers itself to be comfortably placed. This snippet is right in observing that a split in the party might have been averted at its three-day Central Committee meeting where Yechury’s draft political resolution on the party’s future electoral line (tying up with the Congress) was defeated in favour of Karat’s by 55 to