Congress Should Own Responsibility For Mid-Term Polls, Says Cpm

The Congress should own full responsibility for forcing mid-term Lok Sabha elections on the people and the party should face the consequences for this, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) said yesterday.

In a political resolution adopted at the end of its 16th Tamil Nadu state conference, the CPI(M) said the Congress used the Jain commission report as a tool to expel the DMK from the United Front but when it failed, it withdrew support to the United Front government thus forcing elections on the unwilling people.

The BJP, it alleged, utilised the opportunity by encouraging defections using money power but failed.

 

The party was now adopting unfair means to capture power at the Centre by forcing unholy alliances with various parties in different states, it said pointing to the alliance with AIADMK in Tamil Nadu.

The people of Tamil Nadu will defeat these opportunistic forces, the resolution said.

The all-India general secretary of the party, Harkishen Singh Surjeet, who arrived here last morning to participate in the rally slated for the evening, addressed the in-camera valedictory address at noon. It is the duty of the people of Tamil Nadu to defeat the Congress for its nation-wide corrupt activities and opening up of the floodgates for multi-nationals, the resolution said.

It also underlined the need for thwarting BJPs attempts to form the government at the Centre. The BJP should not be allowed to take roots in Tamil Nadu the resolution said.

The conference unanimously elected a 16-member state secretariat.

N Sankariah, the state secretary, was unanimously reflected secretary of the partys state unit. The newly elected members would hold office for three years.