Communists sniff opportunity in BJP's loss.WILL THE BJP's loss be the communists' gain? The Left hopes to bounce back as a serious political force by riding on the saffron crisis. The CPM politburo is meeting on September 5- 6 to take stock of the current political situation. As the BJP's disciplined facade is getting shattered by its internal wars, the principal communist party Communist party, in China Communist party, in China, ruling party of the world's most populous nation since 1949 and most important Communist party in the world since the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. , the CPM, is seeking to move in, take advantage of the situation and rehabilitate itself as a serious political force. " It is an opportunity for us. We could use it to move among the people, talk and give ourselves a chance in our effort to create a non- Congress, non BJP BJP Bharatiya Janata Party (India) BJP British Journal of Psychiatry BJP British Journal of Photography BJP Bubble Jet Printer (Canon) BJP Bence Jones Protein BJP Boston Jolly Pirates alternative," CPM general secretary Prakash Karat Prakash Karat (Malayalam: പ്രകാശ് കാരാത്) is communist politician from India. The 60-year old Prakash Karat was elected as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on the 11th of said. The politburo meeting is to discuss the current political situation with regard to both the BJP and the three months of UPA (Ultra Port Architecture) A high-speed interconnect between the CPU and memory from Sun. It uses a packet-switched crossbar architecture that can transfer more than 100 MBytes/sec. rule, and identify points that could be built upon to revitalise the party. But the party does not seem to be willing to actually work on issues in the public domain that are perceived to have caused its electoral debacle. Karat's perceived " intransigent" stand on the nuclear deal, his backing of the party's Kerala general secretary Pinarayi Vijayan Vijayan is a communist politician and a former minister of Kerala, South India. Currently he is the Secretary of the Kerala State Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM). who is accused of involvement in a corruption case and the Nandigram- Singur incidents are all now on the backburner. A former central committee member said: " Those issues will not be discussed at all at the politburo. We have finished discussing those and our stand is clear. We are now looking ahead." So, there is to be no image makeover, no perceptible change in stand or tactics that will help the CPM become more broad- based or acceptable. What the party is likely to do, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Karat karat A measure of the purity of gold. Pure gold is indicated by the label 24 karat. See also fineness. , is discuss the impact of the BJP's internal struggle on the political situation and identify specific areas to spread communist thinking in place of the saffron. The party also claims it is going on a rectification drive to weed out all the " vices" among the party cadre. The CPM has done rectification drives earlier, but this time round, the matter is more significant as Karat has publicly acknowledged the malpractices in the cadre as a major cause for the erosion of the party image, particularly in West Bengal West Bengal: see Bengal. West Bengal State (pop., 2001: 80,176,197), northeastern India. It is bordered by Nepal and Bangladesh and the states of Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim, Assam, and Meghalaya and has an area of 34,267 sq mi (88,752 sq km); . The party is obviously in need of drastic measures for rehabilitation particularly in wake of the poor attendance at Monday's rally in West Bengal. sowmya.aji@mailtoday.in Copyright 2009 India Today Group. All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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