Ground Reality

Caught in cleft stick of CPM and Trinamool Congress, Ace strategists of the Grand old party, having only 45 members in the Lower house of the Indian Parliament are mulling over its strategy for the forthcoming  State Assembly polls in the West Bengal. Communist party of India (CPM) ,fresh from the party’s plenum in its old citadel WB,is holding two days meeting of the party’s central committee in the National capital on Feb 16 and 17 to frame its poll strategy in tune   with the W.B state committee meeting recommendations in Kolkata .  The state   committee will send its proposals about the Political-Tactical line ( P-TL) to the Central committee and on those recommendations , top heads of the Red brigade will have   brain storming session to crystallize its strategy. The P-TL approach was approved in the Vishakhapatnam Congress of Party and it was under discussions at plenum, held after more than three decades.   Knowing fully well that th...

The political tactical line of CPM has favoured flexibility in striking poll deals,but it had left little room for state wings to decide at its own such tie-ups. The party leaders are having brain storming sessions in Kolkata during the First organizational Plenum in 37 years for its revival at grass-root level by taking up social and economic issues  even as the West Bengal State Assembly polls are round the corner. CPM leader Sitaram Yechury has made it clear that the party will discuss its poll strategy after the plenum but observers feel that it is caught in a cleft stick of dilemma of cobbling deal with Congress in the wake of stiff opposition from its leaders in Kerala . In Kerala, it has to fight with Congress led UDF.Tripura Chief Minister Manik  Sarkar has minced no words to.oppose truck with Congress and Likewise, Kerala top.hats are opposed for such a deal. Speculations about the tie-ups gathered storm after the CPM Rally in Brigade Maidan o...