Apparently suggesting change in CPI(M) leadership in West Bengal following the latest reverses in the municipal polls, former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee today suggested removal of the 'captain', but the Marxist party disagreed with it.
"At all levels it depends on a leader, captain and the general for success. For example, why is a coach sacked after a team suffers defeat? Perhaps the same is applicable," Chatterjee said when asked whether a change in the state CPI(M) leadership was necessary following the recent electoral debacles.
The 84-year-old former CPI(M) veteran said that Left oriented politics in the interest of the working class and middle class was getting weakened.
"Those parties which are connected with this politics, I request them to analyse this because the future is more important and not the power," Chatterjee, who was expelled from the party in 2008, said.
CPI(M) Central Committee member Shyamal Chakraborty, however, disagreed with Chatterjee's comments and said, "We don't agree with his suggestions, as in sports a coach is hired by spending money.
"In a Communist Party how can you hire leaders from the market? We don't agree with this comparison," he said.
