Just to clarify, my own position, as regards the coming Lok Sabbha poll is as under.
The best case scenario for a nationwide anti-BJP electoral front for the next Lok Sabha poll appears to be a collage of state-specific alliances with the Congress occupying the pole position "nationally", if at all, while it may or just may not figure in a specific state. Obviously, there can't be a coalition between the Congress and the CPI(M) in Kerala. But, that must not rule out the possibility of joining hands "nationally". Broadly, that's what had happened during the UPA-I. The same principle should apply, mutatis mutandis, in case of other partners as well. And, also the coming assembly polls. Now, that was admittedly, even otherwise, easier said than done. The CPI(M) Central Committee resolution, with majority vote, has turned things even trickier. Sukla On 22/01/2018, Sukla Sen <[email protected]> wrote: > Relevant in the current context: > > Anand Patwardhan > 12 hrs · > #Shame > > Shame on Prakash Karat and his team for rejecting Yechury's idea of a > CPM tie up with Congress in 2019. > > So how many B teams does the BJP have ? Nitish Kumar is a proven one. > Yesterday even Congress acted like a B team by attacking AAP at the > behest of a puppet EC. > > Can't our idiotic secularists realize that only a broad united and > disciplined front can defeat RSS fascism ? > > History will never forgive those who dither while fascism grows ! > > END > > (Source: > <https://www.facebook.com/anand.patwardhan.52?hc_ref=ARRkIddBkiFQ1DQWioCC8RKHHX9OoMWUADg5K3JanabRPvcW8peXYQ9ApZN8ncYeAbo&fref=nf>.) > > Also: > > Anand Patwardhan > 20 January at 14:54 · > #Shame > > Shame on Congress for taking potshots at AAP when they are under > attack by the ruling regime. What is the use of calling the Sangh > Parivar govt "fascist" if you do not want to build a genuine > anti-fascist alliance ??? > > Gujarat had shown the way. Jignesh was supported by both Congress and AAP. > > Now the usual opportunistic elements seem to be back? > > END > > (Source: ibid.) > > On 21/01/2018, Sukla Sen <[email protected]> wrote: >> [<<The party’s former general secretary, Prakash Karat, whose >> anti-Congress >> stand is well known ever since he pulled the plug on the first UPA >> government in 2008 over the Indo-US nuke deal, had support from the >> southern units of the CPI-M, especially Kerala. >> The state’s chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan is believed to be an active >> advocate of the Karat line. The fact that special invitee to the CC >> meeting >> and former Kerala CM, VS Achyutanandan, who couldn’t attend the meeting >> but >> wrote a letter calling for ouster of the BJP with support of the secular >> and democratic forces including the Congress evidently failed to cut >> ice.>> >> >> While over the last decade the CPI(M) managed to metamorphose itself into >> a >> rather bit payaer (with just 9 MPs in the Lok Sabha) on the national >> scene >> from a leading actor (with 43 MPs in the Lok Sabha) earlier, post-2004, >> in >> particular, its latest decision cannot but nevertheless have the >> (proverbial) butterfy effect. >> >> It'll help demoralising those fighting the Hindutva terror and, >> conversely, >> come as a moral booster for the Hindutva camp. >> It's just a sheer fanatasy that such a decision will trigger a massive >> militant Left mobilisation in India capable of taking the Hindutva terror >> head on, on its own. Maybe, outside of the parliamentary arena. >> Rather it'd now be easirer for the Hindutva camp to project its project >> of >> "Congress-mukt Bharat" far more realisable. >> Cause further disarray in the even otherwise largely, as of now, >> disarrayed >> opposition canp. >> >> In the very immediate and very tangible term, it'd provide a significant >> push to the rather hapless West Bengal Congress into the pretty >> uninviting >> lap of the Trinamool Congress. >> But, in such an event, it'd have an impact on the electoral fortunes of >> the >> constantly shrinking CPI(M) as well. >> This danger might, only might, even trigger an open revolt in the West >> Bengal CPI(M) ranks, as had happened before the last assembly poll. >> >> So, even for the CPI(M), it appears to be a move towards an accelerated >> onward march to political irrelevance, in the name of ideological purity >> and all that.] >> >> http://www.news18.com/news/politics/prakash-karat-prevails-over-sitaram-yechury-cpim-says-no-to-alliance-with-congress-in-2019-1637905.html >> >> Prakash Karat Prevails Over Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M) Says No to Alliance >> With Congress in 2019 >> The CPI(M) will have no alliance with the Congress in 2019 general >> elections, the party's central committee passed a resolution to that >> effect >> . >> Sougata Mukhopadhyay | CNN-News18Updated:January 21, 2018, 7:07 PM IST >> facebookTwittergoogleskype >> Prakash Karat Prevails Over Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M) Says No to Alliance >> With Congress in 2019 File photos of CPM leaders Prakash Karat and >> Sitaram >> Yechury. (PTI) >> Kolkata: The die has been cast. The CPI(M)’s central committee has >> adopted >> its draft political resolution and decided not to join hands with the >> Congress to take on the BJP in the forthcoming elections, including the >> general elections of 2019. >> >> With 55 votes against 31, the political line of CPI(M)’s former general >> secretary Prakash Karat trumped the opinion of reigning general secretary >> Sitaram Yechury in the highest policy making body of the party. >> >> The vertical division at the top leadership of the CPI-M on whether or >> not >> to go with the Congress had struck such high chords during the three-day >> meet in Kolkata that Yechury even offered to resign at one point. He was >> coaxed to retract from his position by senior comrades at the meeting, it >> was reliably learnt. >> >> >> The resolution adopted by the 91-member committee will now be put up for >> formal adoption at the CPI(M) party congress, which is scheduled to take >> place in Hyderabad in April. Once adopted, the party is bound to follow >> and >> implement its political-tactical line till its next party congress, which >> takes place once every three years. >> >> The voting took place in the wake of the committee’s unwillingness to >> carry >> two separate documents on the political tactical line to the party >> congress. >> >> “We have resolved not to go into any kind of electoral alliance or >> political understanding with the Congress party. This is a draft >> resolution >> which would be adopted by the party only after the party congress. It >> would >> be released for discussion within the party two months ahead of the >> congress,” Yechury told reporters after the meet. >> >> Asked whether this was a setback, Yechury defended the party’s official >> position: “We have always maintained our distance from the Congress >> party… >> this is not new,” he said. >> >> Political observers believe that the task of toeing this political line >> would become especially difficult for some state units like Tripura where >> elections are scheduled to take place less than a month from now. While >> the >> Left has identified the Sangh-BJP combine as the biggest threat to one of >> its last standing bastions in the country, it may not be able to rope in >> the Congress, a formidable political force in that state, in its fight >> against the BJP. >> >> Asked if the party’s central leadership would leave it to the state >> leaders >> to take a final call on that, Yechury said, “The Left Front is well >> poised >> to win the Tripura elections on its own”. >> >> The party’s former general secretary, Prakash Karat, whose anti-Congress >> stand is well known ever since he pulled the plug on the first UPA >> government in 2008 over the Indo-US nuke deal, had support from the >> southern units of the CPI-M, especially Kerala. >> >> The state’s chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan is believed to be an active >> advocate of the Karat line. The fact that special invitee to the CC >> meeting >> and former Kerala CM, VS Achyutanandan, who couldn’t attend the meeting >> but >> wrote a letter calling for ouster of the BJP with support of the secular >> and democratic forces including the Congress evidently failed to cut ice. >> >> It remains to be seen in this backdrop whether April does indeed turn out >> be the cruellest month for Yechury who is battling one of the lowest >> phases >> of his party in its entire history. >> >> >> -- >> Peace Is Doable >> > > > -- > Peace Is Doable > -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
